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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2021 Dec 16;246:65–73. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2021.11.021

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics in older adults with acute myocardial infarction by whether they had concomitant heart failure during index admission in Premier Healthcare Database from 2000 to 2016.

Variable Name Total (n=468,654) Heart Failure (n=42,946) No Heart Failure (n=425,708) P-Value
Age, mean (SD) 82.3 (4.7) 83.2 (4.7) 82.2 (4.7) <0.001
Age>85, % 36.0 43.8 35.2 <0.001
Male, % 46.8 43.3 47.2 <0.001
White, % 75.1 76.1 75.1 <0.001
Hispanic, % 12.9 11.4 13.0 <0.001
Admission Source
 Emergency Department, % 40.4 43.7 40.0 <0.001
 Non-Healthcare Facility, % 35.9 38.9 35.6 <0.001
 Transfer, % 14.5 6.2 15.4 <0.001
Admission Type
 Emergent, % 72.2 79.8 71.4 <0.001
 Urgent, % 20.5 14.2 21.2 <0.001
 Elective, % 6.4 5.3 6.5 <0.001
Comorbidities
 Hypertension, % 76.5 88.0 75.4 <0.001
 Diabetes Mellitus, % 30.7 43.3 29.5 <0.001
 Diabetes Mellitus with Complications, % 6.9 15.5 6.1 <0.001
 Valvular Heart Disease, % 4.0 23.5 2.0 <0.001
 Pulmonary Circulation Disorder, % 1.3 9.0 0.5 <0.001
 Peripheral Vascular Disease, % 17.5 27.9 16.5 <0.001
 Paraplegia, % 2.9 5.3 2.6 <0.001
 Neurologic Disorder, % 11.0 17.1 10.4 <0.001
 Chronic Lung Disease, % 25.4 43.6 23.6 <0.001
 Hypothyroidism, % 17.4 23.9 16.8 <0.001
 Renal Failure, % 23.9 44.2 21.9 <0.001
 Coagulopathy, % 6.6 11.7 6.1 <0.001
 Obesity, % 6.8 10.7 6.4 <0.001
 Weight loss, % 4.6 11.3 4.0 <0.001
 Electrolyte disorder, % 31.1 56.0 28.6 <0.001
 Blood loss, % 2.3 5.7 2.0 <0.001
 Iron deficiency anemia, % 27.2 51.3 24.7 <0.001
 Psychiatric disorder, % 2.4 4.6 2.1 <0.001
 Depression, % 8.7 17.0 7.8 <0.001
Claims-based Frailty Indexα, % 19.1 59.3 15.1 <0.001
PCI, % 29.8 14.9 31.4 <0.001
CABG Surgery, % 7.3 4.6 7.6 <0.001

Abbreviations: AIDS = acquired immune deficiency virus; PCI = Percutaneous coronary intervention; CABG = coronary artery bypass surgery.

α

Frailty was defined according to the claims-based frailty index derived from inpatient and outpatient data from 6 months prior to the acute myocardial infarction admission.