Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics including diagnosis, age, gender, family status, education, self-reported health, region, risk factors and disease severity (data missing if sample sizes do not equal N or 100 % for each group)
| Analyzed cohort | Angina | MI | Heart failure | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| 5508 | 100.0 | 1836 | 33.3 | 2086 | 37.9 | 1586 | 28.8 | |
| Gender | ||||||||
| Female | 1312 | 23.8 | 494 | 26.9 | 480 | 23.0 | 338 | 21.3 |
| Male | 4196 | 76.2 | 1342 | 73.1 | 1606 | 77.0 | 1248 | 78.7 |
| Age (years ± SD) | 62.0 ± 11.2 | 62.6 ± 10.1 | 59.2 ± 11.2 | 64.8 ± 11.5 | ||||
| Age category | ||||||||
| <51 | 866 | 15.7 | 222 | 12.1 | 465 | 22.3 | 179 | 11.3 |
| 51–60 | 1656 | 30.1 | 579 | 31.5 | 705 | 33.8 | 372 | 23.5 |
| 61–70 | 1676 | 30.4 | 608 | 33.1 | 562 | 26.9 | 506 | 31.9 |
| >70 | 1310 | 23.8 | 427 | 23.3 | 354 | 17.0 | 529 | 33.4 |
| Family status | ||||||||
| Single | 632 | 11.5 | 194 | 10.6 | 243 | 11.6 | 195 | 12.3 |
| Married | 4145 | 75.3 | 1395 | 74.4 | 1570 | 75.3 | 1180 | 74.4 |
| Other | 667 | 12.1 | 216 | 11.8 | 254 | 12.2 | 197 | 12.4 |
| Education | ||||||||
| <High school | 1947 | 35.3 | 674 | 36.7 | 659 | 31.6 | 614 | 38.7 |
| High school | 1708 | 31.0 | 587 | 32.0 | 654 | 31.4 | 467 | 29.4 |
| >High school | 1674 | 30.4 | 502 | 27.3 | 717 | 34.4 | 455 | 28.7 |
| Self-reported health | ||||||||
| Excellent | 97 | 1.8 | 24 | 1.3 | 56 | 2.7 | 17 | 1.1 |
| Very good | 562 | 10.2 | 162 | 8.9 | 308 | 14.8 | 92 | 5.8 |
| Good | 2034 | 37.1 | 627 | 34.3 | 914 | 44.0 | 493 | 31.2 |
| Fair | 2276 | 41.5 | 818 | 44.7 | 689 | 33.2 | 769 | 48.7 |
| Poor | 518 | 9.4 | 199 | 10.9 | 111 | 5.3 | 208 | 13.2 |
| Region | ||||||||
| Eastern Europe | 1160 | 21.1 | 398 | 21.7 | 401 | 19.2 | 361 | 22.8 |
| English speaking | 1231 | 22.3 | 442 | 24.1 | 437 | 20.9 | 352 | 22.2 |
| Scandinavia | 856 | 15.5 | 291 | 15.8 | 316 | 15.1 | 249 | 15.7 |
| Southern Europe | 793 | 14.4 | 262 | 14.3 | 308 | 14.8 | 223 | 14.1 |
| Cuba | 159 | 2.9 | 57 | 3.1 | 74 | 3.5 | 28 | 1.8 |
| Western Europe | 1309 | 23.8 | 386 | 21.0 | 550 | 26.4 | 373 | 23.5 |
| Risk factors | ||||||||
| Hypertensiona | 3066 | 55.7 | 1184 | 64.5 | 1046 | 50.1 | 836 | 52.7 |
| Diabetesa | 1116 | 20.3 | 397 | 21.6 | 313 | 15.0 | 406 | 25.6 |
| Hypercholesterola | 3305 | 60.0 | 1234 | 67.2 | 1212 | 58.1 | 859 | 54.2 |
| Smoking | 818 | 14.9 | 241 | 13.1 | 346 | 16.6 | 231 | 14.6 |
| BMI (mean ± SD) | 27.4 ± 5.0 | 27.9 ± 4.9 | 26.9 ± 4.7 | 27.3 ± 5.1 | ||||
| Physical inactivityb | 3693 | 68.0 | 1229 | 67.9 | 1320 | 64.0 | 1144 | 73.3 |
| Disease severity | ||||||||
| CCS II | 1235 | 67.3 | ||||||
| CCS III + IV | 543 | 29.6 | ||||||
| NYHA II | 912 | 57.5 | ||||||
| NYHA III + IV | 632 | 39.8 | ||||||
BMI body mass index, CCS Canadian Cardiovascular Society class, MI myocardial infarction, N number of patients, NYHA New York Heart Association Class, SD standard deviation
aAs told by her/his physician
bActive on <3 occasions per week