Research Article
Gender Differences and the Trend in the Acute Myocardial Infarction: A 10-Year Nationwide Population-Based Analysis
Table 1
Comorbidities in acute myocardial infarction patients from 1999 to 2008.
| | Variables | 1999-2000 | 2001-2002 | 2003-2004 | 2005-2006 | 2007-2008 | value |
| | No. of patients | 96 | 77 | 60 | 81 | 62 | 0.001 | | Age (years) | | | | | | <0.001 | | Male number (percentage) | 68 (71%) | 55 (71%) | 41 (68%) | 53 (65%) | 33 (53%) | 0.154 | | STEMI | 46 (48%) | 24 (31%) | 24 (39%) | 31 (38%) | 9 (15%) | <0.001 | | Male number in STEMI (percentage) | 34 (74%) | 17 (71%) | 19 (79%) | 25 (81%) | 5 (56%) | 0.596 | | Male number in NSTEMI (percentage) | 34 (68%) | 38 (72%) | 22 (61%) | 28 (56%) | 28 (53%) | 0.236 | | Coexisting conditions (ICD-9 code) | | | | | | | | Hypertension (401–405) | 31 (32%) | 26 (34%) | 24 (40%) | 19 (23%) | 17 (27%) | 0.274 | | Diabetes mellitus (250) | 16 (17%) | 16 (21%) | 18 (30%) | 15 (19%) | 14 (23%) | 0.353 | | Dyslipidemia (272) | 10 (10%) | 7 (9%) | 7 (12%) | 4 (5%) | 4 (6%) | 0.572 | | Other medical history-% | | | | | | | | Stroke or transient ischemic attack (433–435) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1%) | 2 (2%) | 3 (4%) | 0 (0%) | 0.195 | | Chronic heart failure (428) | 5 (5%) | 5 (6%) | 8 (13%) | 9 (11%) | 12 (19%) | 0.041 | | Chronic lung disease (490–496, 500–508) | 9 (9%) | 8 (10%) | 4 (7%) | 16 (20%) | 7 (11%) | 0.102 | | Neoplasms (140–239) | 2 (2%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (3%) | 1 (1%) | 4 (6%) | 0.136 | | Chronic kidney disease (585) | 0 (0%) | 4 (5%) | 1 (2%) | 2 (2%) | 3 (5%) | 0.206 |
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STEMI: ST elevation MI, NSTEMI: non-ST elevation MI. Only the patients with first onset AMI within the year were included.
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