Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of young patients

	Young patients without AMI (n=41)	Young NSTEMI patients (n=35)	p
Demographics
Age (years)	39.1 ± 5.3	40.5 ± 3.7	0.22
Male gender (n, %)	35 (85.4%)	32 (91.4%)	0.64
Risk factors
Hypertension (n, %)	25 (61%)	18 (51.4%)	0.54
Diabetes mellitus (n, %)	0 (0%)	5 (14.3%)	0.01
Dyslipidemia (n, %)	30 (73.2%)	29 (82.9%)	0.46
Obesity (n, %)	8 (19.5%)	16 (45.7%)	0.02
Active smoking (n, %)	21 (51.2%)	27 (77.1%)	0.03
Total risk factors (n, %)
0	2 (4.8%)	1 (2.9%)	0.87
1	12 (29.3%)	4 (11.4%)	0.10
≥ 2	27 (65.9%)	30 (85.7%)	<0.01