Table 2.
Patient characteristics.
| Author | Age (years) [mean± SD/ mean range-range] unless stated | Male (%) | Index Diagnosis (%) | Past Medical History (%) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMI | NSTEMI | STEMI | UA | Non isch-aemic | Previous MI | DM | Smoking | HTN | Hchol | CHF | CRF | |||
| Reiter [9] | Med 64 (IQR 51-76) | 67 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 14* | 25 | 19 | 34 | 64 | 45 | NR | 10 |
| Viswanathan [12] | 60.01±15 | 60.5 | 20.8 | 20.8 | 0 | 79.2 | 0 | 30.5 | 15.1 | 24.4 | 61.2 | NR | 5.1 | NR |
| McCann [11] | 62±13 | 70.2 | 52.9 | 33.6 | 19.2 | 26 | 21.1 | 36.9 | 17.3 | 68.2 | 54.6 | 76.6 | NR | 3.6 |
| Ilva [14] | 67.1 | 61.8 | 42.0 | 22.9 | 19.1 | NR | 4.1 | 30.7 | 17.4 | 18.8 | 43.7 | 58.4 | 10.2 | NR |
| Kilcullen [7] | Med 72.5± 13 | 61 | 87.7 | 62.9 | 24.8 | 12.3 | 0 | 27.1 | 16.9 | 26.1 | NR | NR | 7.6 | NR |
| O’Donoghue [13] | 38.74% ≥ 65 years | 71.9 | 54.9 | 22.5 | 32.4 | 45.1 | 0 | NR | 21.6 | 35.9 | 41.9 | 28.3 | 5.2 | NR |
| Ishii [10] | 64.9 ±10.4 | 80.5 | 73.5 | NR | 47 | NR | 0 | 17.7 | 32.0 | 54.3 | 54.9 | 44.2 | 0.9 | NR |
Abbreviations: NR = not reported, AMI= acute myocardial infarction, NSTEMI- non st segment elevation myocardial infarction, STEMI= st segment elevation myocardial infarction,
UA= unstable angina, DM= diabetes mellitus, HTN= hypertension, HChol= hypercholesteraema, CHF= chronic heart failure, CRF = chronic renal failure, Med= median, *refers to cardiac non-coronary disease.