Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of patients with acute myocardial infarction who later developed adverse cardiovascular events (ACE) and direct medical costs for the first hospitalization, life-time medical costs (LMC) for in- and out-patient stratified by major comorbidities and receiving percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Receiving PCI	Without major comorbidities		With major comorbidities
	Yes	No	Yes	No
Total	26,193	12,248	4369	4573
No. of male (%)	21,675 (82.8%)	9202 (75.1%)	3238 (74.1%)	3109 (68.0%)
Age (mean ± SD)	60.9 ± 13.4	64.9 ± 13.7	70.3 ± 11.9	72.8 ± 12.1
No. of STEMI (%)	4306 (16.4%)	2863 (23.4%)	N/A	N/A
No. of NSTEMI (%)	21,887 (83.6%)	9385 (76.6%)	N/A	N/A
No. of deceased (%)	5802 (22.2%)	5397 (44.1%)	2382 (54.5%)	3504 (76.6%)
Direct medical costs for the first hospitalization (US$)	5486	4728	N/A	N/A
Follow-up outpatient LMC (US$)	23,975	18,860	N/A	N/A
Follow-up inpatient LMC (US$)	36,286	29,823	N/A	N/A
ACE (No. events/population)
Within 1 year
Acute myocardial infarction	1317 (5.0%)	1529 (12.5%)	322 (7.4%)	597 (13.1%)
Heart Failure	753 (2.9%)	499 (4.1%)	300 (6.9%)	363 (7.9%)
Stroke	465 (1.8%)	271 (2.2%)	171 (3.9%)	163 (3.6%)
Within 3 years
Acute myocardial infarction	1739 (6.7%)	1751 (14.3%)	403 (9.2%)	688 (15.0%)
Heart Failure	1096 (3.5%)	688 (5.6%)	400 (9.2%)	493 (10.8%)
Stroke	831 (2.6%)	510 (4.2%)	279 (6.4%)	245 (5.4%)
Within 18 years
Acute myocardial infarction	2749 (10.5%)	2247 (18.3%)	517 (11.8%)	783 (17.1%)
Heart Failure	1732 (6.6%)	1117 (9.1%)	510 (11.7%)	602 (13.2%)
Stroke	1652 (6.3%)	983 (8.0%)	404 (9.2%)	323 (7.1%)

Major comorbidities include ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, chronic kidney diseases, liver cirrhosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and documental malignancy.

SD standard deviation, STEMI ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, NSTEMI non ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.