Table 1.
Description and comparison of the characteristics of patients admitted for acute myocardial infarction from 2013 to 2014 in France (n = 115,418).
| Population |
Deceased at one year |
Alive at one year |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 115,418 | N = 14,032 (12.2%) | N = 101,386 | ||
| mean±SD | mean±SD | mean±SD | ||
| Age | 68±15 | 79±12 | 66±15 | <0.01 |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Men | 79,112 (68.5%) | 7687 (54.8%) | 71,425 (70.5%) | <0.01 |
| STEMI | 86,817 (76.1%) | 11,404 (83.1%) | 75,413 (75.1%) | <0.01 |
| Atrial fibrillation | 13,505 (11.7%) | 3066 (21.9%) | 10,439 (10.3%) | <0.01 |
| Severe AMI | 75,954 (65.8%) | 12,946 (92.3%) | 63,008 (62.2%) | <0.01 |
| Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty | 67,183 (58.2%) | 4579 (32.6%) | 62,604 (61.8%) | <0.01 |
| Coronary artery bypass graft | 1007 (0.9%) | 101 (0.7%) | 906 (0.9%) | 0.04 |
| Other percutaneous coronary intervention | 7453 (6.5%) | 733 (5.2%) | 6720 (6.6%) | <0.01 |
| Charlson comorbidity index | <0.01 | |||
| 0-1 | 61,071 (52.9%) | 4661 (33.2%) | 56,410 (55.6%) | |
| 2 | 29,448 (25.5% | 3892 (27.7%) | 25,556 (25.2%) | |
| 3 | 12,514 (10.8%) | 2178 (15.5%) | 10,336 (10.2%) | |
| ≥4 | 12,385 (10.7%) | 3301 (23.5%) | 9084 (9.0%) | |
| Elixhauser comorbidity index | <0.01 | |||
| 0 | 31,704 (27.5% | 2485 (17.7%) | 29,219 (28.8%) | |
| 1 | 30,741 (26.6%) | 2669 (19.0%) | 28,072 (27.7%) | |
| 2 | 23,547 (20.4%) | 2770 (19.7%) | 20,777 (20.5%) | |
| 3 | 14,458 (12.5%) | 2417 (17.2%) | 12,041 (11.9%) | |
| ≥4 | 14,968 (13.0%) | 3691 (26.3%) | 11,277 (11.1%) | |
| Areas | <0.01 | |||
| Major urban centresa | 63,188 (56.3%) | 7454 (54.3%) | 55,734 (56.7%) | |
| Suburbs of major centresa | 24,321 (21.7%) | 2871 (20.9%) | 21,450 (21.8%) | |
| Small and mid-sized centresa | 10,801 (9.6%) | 1493 (10.9%) | 9308 (9.5%) | |
| Rural areasa | 13,759 (12.3%) | 1922 (14.0%) | 11,837 (12.0%) |
a
Among metropolitan France (N = 112,496); Missing data = 247 (0.2%).