Table 1.

Selected Characteristics of the Study Population

	Main Population	Excluding Patients Who Died of Cardiovascular Disease
Number of cases	1207	1044
Age (y), median (interquartile range)	79 (70 to 85)	78 (70 to 84)
Gender (male), n (%)	752 (62.3)	667 (63.9)
AMI episodes per case in the observation period, n (%)
1	1059 (87.7)	926 (88.7)
2	126 (10.4)	101 (9.7)
3	14 (1.2)	10 (1.0)
4	8 (0.7)	7 (0.7)
PCI for index AMI, n (%)	706 (58.5)	643 (62.0%)
Overall mortality, n (%)	234 (19.4)	71 (6.8)*
Cardiovascular mortality, n (%)	163 (13.5)	0
Length of observation period (days), mean±SD	332.0±82.5	355.4±39.3

AMI indicates acute myocardial infarction; PCI, percutaneous cardiac intervention; SD, standard deviation.

^*Noncardiovascular mortality only.