Table 1.
Baseline lifestyle and clinical characteristics of 1818 men with incident non-fatal myocardial infarction in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study
| Alcohol consumption (g/day) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0.1–9.9 | 10.0–29.9 | ≥30.0 | P-value* | |
| Lifestyle characteristicsa | |||||
| n | 515 | 719 | 420 | 164 | |
| Alcohol (g/day) | 0 | 3.1 ± 2.1 | 15.8 ± 1.3 | 42.9 ± 1.3 | <0.001 |
| Current smoker (%) | 8.3 | 10.5 | 12.0 | 20.8 | <0.001 |
| Married (%) | 82.7 | 79.3 | 81.0 | 78.0 | 0.46 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 26.7 ± 3.2 | 26.7 ± 3.0 | 26.6 ± 3.1 | 26.8 ± 3.1 | 0.87 |
| Diabetes (%) | 16.9 | 8.7 | 9.0 | 5.2 | <0.001 |
| Hypertension (%) | 40.8 | 39.1 | 42.0 | 38.3 | 0.70 |
| Aspirin use (%) | 50.0 | 53.0 | 61.1 | 57.8 | 0.004 |
| Lipid-lowering medication (%) | 10.5 | 14.2 | 12.8 | 12.7 | 0.28 |
| Clinical characteristics during hospitalization | |||||
| Anterior MI (%) | 24.2 | 27.0 | 25.5 | 15.9 | 0.02 |
| ST-elevation MI (%) | 37.3 | 44.6 | 36.0 | 40.5 | 0.01 |
| Heart failure during hospitalization for MI (%) | 8.4 | 8.9 | 7.0 | 5.0 | 0.36 |
| Abnormal left ventricular ejection fraction (%)b | 10.4 | 9.1 | 9.2 | 7.5 | 0.88 |
| Acute therapy (%)c | 30.7 | 35.2 | 30.7 | 31.6 | 0.23 |
aAll characteristics are age standardized. Values are mean ± standard deviation for continuous variables, except for alcohol, which is shown as log-transformed geometric mean ± standard deviation, and proportions for categorical variables.
bDefined as the left ventricular ejection fraction <40% or marked abnormal in medical records.
cDefined as acute fibrinolytic therapy or primary angioplasty.
*P-values determined by analysis of variance for continuous variables and χ2 test for categorical variables.