Table 2. Clinical Presentation.

	Secondary hospitals n = 43 (%)	TBH n = 33 (%)	p-value
Chest pain
First episode	25 (58)	19 (58)	0.9606
Time to present (hours) (± SD)	19.65 (± 29.54)	30.15 (± 38.21)	0.1963
Duration of pain (mins) (± SD)	30.15 (± 38.21)	47.58 (± 35.51)	0.1488
Recurrence	23 (55)	14 (42)	0.2880
Pulse rate (beats per minute) (± SD)	84.16 (± 28.20)	87.84 (± 19.89)	0.4072
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) (± SD)	130.67 (± 35.84)	144.84 (± 33.30)	0.0822
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) (± SD)	75.90 (± 19.81)	80.21 (± 17.91)	0.9568
ECG findings
Normal	2 (5)	2 (6)	0.7859
Previous MI	9 (21)	9 (27)	0.5203
ST depression	19 (44)	16 (48)	0.7094
T-wave changes
Flattening	6 (14%	1 (3)	0.0829
Inversion	10 (23)	11 (33)	0.3315
Dynamic changes	10 (23)	12 (36)	0.2129
Wellens’ syndrome	2 (5)	4 (12)	0.2322
Left ventricular hypertrophy	5 (12)	5 (15)	0.6536
Left bundle branch block (old)	4 (9)	4 (12)	0.6925
Right bundle branch block	6 (14)	4 (12)	0.8142
Atrial fibrillation	3 (7)	2 (6)	0.8727
Atrial flutter	0 (0)	1 (3)	0.2505
Finger-prick blood glucose (mmol/l)
< 4 .0	1 (2)	0 (0)	0.3779
4.1–6.9	27 (63)	15 (45)	0.1319
7.0–10.0	8 (19)	6 (18)	0.9624
10.1–19.9	7 (16)	10 (30)	0.1459
≥ 20.0	0 (0)	2 (6)	0.1018
Temperature (°C)	35.85 (± 0.61)	36.10 (± 0.59)	0.0768
Cardiac failure	18 (42)	12 (36)	0.4740
Killip II	8 (19)	5 (15)	0.6919
Killip III	3 (7)	5 (15)	0.2497
Killip IV	7 (16)	2 (6)	0.1718
Serum creatinine (μmol/l) (± SD)	100.09 (± 35.46)	101.21 (± 33.75)	0.1938
TIMI score (± SD)	3.46 (± 1.42)	4.33 (± 1.08)	0.0046*
GRACE score (± SD)
Probability of death
in hospital	8.79 (± 14.60)%	5.49 (± 0.09)%	0.2321
at 6 months	15.57 (± 22.49)%	11.03 (± 12.68)%	0.2695
Probability of death or MI
in hospital	18.81 (± 12.82)%	16.72 (± 8.94)%	0.4279
at 6 months	31.67 (± 19.59)%	28.39 (± 13.36)%	0.4119

*p-values calculated comparing TBH and secondary hospital groups, p < 0.05 was statistically significant.