Patient characteristics
The average age, sex ratio, events included in the medical history and
comorbidities of patients treated for different types of infarction are
summarised in Table 1 . In the case of STEMI, patients in the CR
were significantly older than those in the WR and ER. Compared with the
other two regions, prior infarction was most common in the CR, whereas
stroke was the most common prior disease in the ER; both hypertension
and peripheral artery disease were more common in the WR and ER than in
the CR. The incidence of diabetes was significantly higher in the WR
than in the other two regions.
In the NSTEMI group, patients were again oldest and prior myocardial
infarction was most common in the CR. Regarding comorbidities,
statistically significant differences in incidence were not clinically
important, except the incidence of peripheral artery disease, in which a
3% lower incidence was found in the WR than in the other regions.