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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med. 2020 Aug 14;134(1):95–103. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.07.020

Table 2.

Treatment Characteristics of Middle-old and Oldest-old patients Hospitalized with myocardial infarction: Medical Therapies, Intervention and In-hospital Outcomes

Treatment Characteristics Middle-old
(75–84 yrs)
(N=2210)
N(%)
Oldest-old
(≥85 yrs)
(N=831)
N(%)
p value
Medical therapies on admission
Aspirin 1641 (74.3%) 591 (71.1%) 0.08
Theinopyridines 1376 (62.3%) 513 (61.7%) 0.79
Anticoagulant use (intravenous or subcutaneous) 1836 (83.1%) 667 (80.3%) 0.07
Statin 1288 (58.3%) 423 (50.9%) <0.001
Beta-blockers 1160 (52.5%) 420 (50.5%) 0.37
Angiotensinogen-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin-receptor blockers 1108 (50.1%) 365 (43.9%) <0.01
Interventions
Coronary angiography 1963 (88.8%) 607 (73.0%) <0.0001
PCI 1293 (58.5%) 445 (53.5%) 0.01
CABG 315 (14.3%) 47 (5.7%) <0.001
Revascularization (PCI or CABG) 1587 (71.8%) 483 (58.1%) <0.001
In-hospital outcomes
Major bleeding event 222 (10.0%) 52 (6.3%) 0.001
Heart Failure 280 (12.7%) 148 (17.8%) <0.001)
Cardiogenic shock 92 (4.2%) 23 (2.8%) 0.07
Arrhythmia 397 (18.0%) 155 (18.7%) 0.66
Acute kidney injury 527 (23.8%) 190 (22.9%) 0.56
In-hospital mortality 22 (1.0%) 13 (1.6%) 0.19

PCI- percutaneous coronary intervention, CABG- coronary artery bypass grafting