Table 1.

Patient characteristics according to diabetes classification.

	Diabetes (n = 719)	No diabetes (n = 5949)	P Value
Age (SD)	69.5	67.1	<0.0001
Gender. %	41.3	31.5	<0.0001
Women	58.7	68.5
Men
Body mass index (SD)	26.7	25.6	<0.0001
Creatinine (mean). μmol/l	117	107	<0.0001
Hypertension. %	36.3	21.0	<0.0001
Angina pectoris %	48.1	35.5	<0.0001
Previous MI. %	32.3	22.3	<0.0001
Heart failure*. %	69.0	51.8	<0.0001
Current smoking. %	36.1	53.4	<0.0001
Thrombolysis. %	27.0	42.5	<0.0001
Previous stroke. %	13.2	7.6	<0.0001
Diuretic treatment. %	64.2	42.3	<0.0001
NYHA. %
Class I	47.0	58.4	<0.0001
Class II	34.8	28.3
Class III	6.9	3.9
Class IV	9.0	6.3
Killip. %
Class I	69.5	79.9	<0.0001
Class II	22.0	14.2
Class III	2.2	2.11
Class IV	6.3	3.8
Wall motion index. %
>1.6	21.1	34.1	<0.0001
1.3-1.6	20.9	23.9
0.8-1.2	40.1	31.1
<0.8	8.2	4.7

SD, standard deviation; NYHA, New York Heart Association;

P-values calculated with the use of chi2-test for discrete variables and t-test for continuous variables.

*History of heart failure and in-hospital heart failure