Figure 1. Trends in Selected Comorbidities among Young Patients with AMI, 2001–2010.
Trends in selected comorbidities including hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, renal failure, and stroke are shown for black women, white women, black men and white men respectively with AMI from 2001–2010. Black women had the highest prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, and heart failure across all groups. The prevalence of hypertension and diabetes increased significantly for all subgroups from 2001–2010.