Table 2.

Demographic information and important risk factors of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) for Edmonton and Calgary populations

	Prevalence in Calgary			Prevalence in Edmonton
AMI risk factor	Both	Female	Male	Both	Female	Male
Smoking	14.89	12.75	16.99	18.13	14.68	21.57
Hypertension	8.66	8.59	8.76	8.77	8.65	8.92
Diabetes	4.01	3.56	4.52	4.78	4.42	5.19
Obesity	15.07	13.20	16.77	17.16	15.22	18.93
History of coronary heart disease	2.40	1.79	3.06	2.34	1.72	3.02
Age 0–19 years	0.25	0.25	0.26	0.25	0.25	0.26
Age 20–64 years	0.62	0.61	0.62	0.60	0.59	0.61
Age ≥65 years	0.13	0.14	0.12	0.15	0.16	0.13
Unemployment	4.10	4.40	3.90	4.70	4.70	4.80

Unemployment data for the two cities were from Census 2006 (http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/index-eng.cfm); all other data were from Alberta Interactive Health Data Application (http://www.ahw.gov.ab.ca/IHDA_Retrieval/) and calculated from annual prevalence rates over the period 2000–2010. Prevalence of smoking is the rate of current daily smokers; prevalence rate of obesity is the rate of people with body mass index ≥30; unemployment is the rate of unemployment for those aged 15 years or over.