Table 1.
Patient characteristics for overall population and stratified by gender.
| Description | Total Sample N=3,501 |
Men N=1,152 (33%) |
Women N=2,349 (67%) |
P-value |
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| Socio-Demographics (%) | ||||
| Age: Mean (SD) | 47±6.20 | 47±5.97 | 47±6.32 | 0.6906 |
| Age: Median (IQR) | 48 (8.00) | 48 (9.00) | 48 (8.00) | 0.2500 |
| Race | <0.0001 | |||
| Black | 15.71 | 9.81 | 18.60 | |
| White | 78.32 | 83.42 | 75.82 | |
| Other | 5.97 | 6.77 | 5.58 | |
| Hispanic* | 7.68 | 7.99 | 7.54 | 0.6378 |
| Marital Status | <0.0001 | |||
| With partner | 57.95 | 63.80 | 55.09 | |
| Without partner | 40.96 | 35.16 | 43.81 | |
| Other | 1.09 | 1.04 | 1.11 | |
| Education Status | 0.0871 | |||
| Unknown | 1.91 | 2.34 | 1.70 | |
| Less than high school | 5.28 | 4.08 | 5.87 | |
| High school graduate | 40.47 | 41.15 | 40.14 | |
| More than high school | 52.33 | 52.43 | 52.28 | |
| Employment/Working Status | <0.0001 | |||
| Working full-time | 51.04 | 66.67 | 43.38 | |
| Working part-time | 10.57 | 6.08 | 12.77 | |
| Not working | 38.39 | 27.26 | 43.85 | |
| Has health insurance | 79.95 | 77.86 | 80.97 | 0.0310 |
| Avoid healthcare due to cost | 30.16 | 28.47 | 30.99 | 0.1269 |
| Location: Spain | 14.74 | 15.28 | 14.47 | 0.5286 |
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| Cardiac Risk Factors (%) | ||||
| Smoked within last 30 days | 59.55 | 59.20 | 59.73 | 0.7657 |
| History of Diabetes | 34.82 | 26.74 | 38.78 | <0.0001 |
| History of hypertension | 63.32 | 62.33 | 63.81 | 0.3907 |
| History of dyslipidemia | 66.32 | 70.14 | 64.45 | 0.0008 |
| Family history of CAD | 71.55 | 70.23 | 72.20 | 0.2235 |
| BMI>30 | 48.07 | 43.58 | 50.28 | 0.0002 |
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| Medical History (%) | ||||
| Prior CAD | 19.19 | 20.49 | 18.56 | 0.1742 |
| Prior angina/stable CAD | 27.02 | 26.04 | 27.50 | 0.3609 |
| Prior stroke/TIA | 4.20 | 2.34 | 5.11 | 0.0002 |
| Prior PAD | 2.26 | 2.00 | 2.38 | 0.4682 |
| History of Sleep Apnea | 4.60 | 5.12 | 4.34 | 0.3010 |
| Congestive Heart Failure | 4.03 | 2.08 | 4.98 | 0.0000 |
| Renal dysfunction | 10.34 | 7.81 | 11.58 | 0.0006 |
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| Non-Cardiac Co-morbidities (%) | ||||
| History of alcohol abuse | 6.60 | 10.94 | 4.47 | <0.0001 |
| History of illicit drug use | 7.65 | 7.81 | 7.58 | 0.8060 |
| Autoimmune Disorders | 3.08 | 1.30 | 3.96 | <0.0001 |
| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary | ||||
| Disease | 10.25 | 5.47 | 12.60 | <0.0001 |
| Depression | 39.93 | 23.87 | 47.81 | <0.0001 |
| Cancer | 3.37 | 1.91 | 4.09 | 0.0008 |
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| Disease Severity (%) | ||||
| Initial heart rate (BPM): Mean (SD) | 20.34 | 20.10 | 20.42 | 0.0037 |
| Initial heart rate (BPM): Median (IQR) | 24.00 | 24.00 | 25.00 | 0.0137 |
| Initial SBP (mmHg): Mean (SD) | 30.85 | 28.78 | 31.80 | 0.0482 |
| Initial SBP (mmHg): Median (IQR) | 38.00 | 35.00 | 39.00 | 0.0214 |
| ST-segment elevation AMI | 51.73 | 59.46 | 47.94 | <0.0001 |
| Ejection fraction <40% | 10.51 | 10.94 | 10.30 | 0.5647 |
| GRACE score: Median (QR) | 25.00 | 24.00 | 25.00 | 0.0165 |
| Peak troponin: Median (QR) | 27.34 | 35.78 | 22.55 | <0.0001 |
| Presentation 6 hrs. symptom onset | 57.75 | 63.54 | 54.92 | <0.0001 |
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| Hospital Procedures (%) | ||||
| Diagnostic angiography | 94.60 | 94.88 | 94.47 | 0.6116 |
| Primary PCI | 48.24 | 52.60 | 46.10 | 0.0003 |
| Use of coronary revascularization | ||||
| CABG | 8.43 | 10.16 | 7.58 | |
| PCI | 71.95 | 79.51 | 68.24 | <0.0001 |
| None | 19.62 | 10.33 | 24.18 | |
Abbreviations: BMI= body mass index, CAD= coronary artery disease, TIA= transient ischemic attack, PAD= peripheral artery disease, SBP= systolic blood pressure, AMI= acute myocardial infarction, PCI= percutaneous coronary intervention, CABG= coronary artery bypass grafting
*
In Spain, the default race/minority is classified as white, non-Hispanic.