Table 2.

Prevalence of clinical characteristics and short term prognosis by marital status

	Never-married (n = 102)	Married (n = 1711)	Divorced/widowed (n = 277)	p
Obesity (%)	18	23	24	0.41
Hypertension (%)	44†	50	67††	0.001
Treated (% of hypertensive)	78	78	79	0.15
Hypercholesterolemia (%)	47	47	44	0.68
Treated (% of hypercholesterolemic)	38	39	50	0.12
Diabetes mellitus (%)	26†	31	40††	0.005
Treated (% of diabetic)	67	70	75	0.67
Prior CVD (%)	31	40	52	0.001
Family history of CHD (%)	42	37	34	0.39
CES-Depression score (0–60)	16 ± 9	13 ± 9	11 ± 8	0.11
Discharge diagnosis				0.02
Q-wave MI (%)	37	33	25†
Non-Q-wave MI (%)	30	32	32
Unstable angina (%)	33	35	43†
Short term prognosis
In-hospital deaths (%)	7†	3*	5*†	0.03
30-day nonfatal events (%)	4	7	9	0.28
30-day fatal events (%)	4†	2*	5†	0.01
Adherence to treatment after discharge (%)	78	86	82	0.13

^* Notes: p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01 between married, divorced/widowed vs. never-married group, after correcting for multiple comparisons through the Bonferroni correction;

^†p < 0.05;

^††p < 0.01 between never-married, divorced/widowed vs. married group, after correcting for multiple comparisons through the Bonferroni correction.