Gender Differences and the Trend in the Acute Myocardial Infarction: A 10-Year Nationwide Population-Based Analysis

Table 2

Differences between medical center and non-medical center.

Total number (𝑛)	AMI			STEMI			NSTEMI
	Center (33)	Noncenter (343)	𝑃 value	Center (13)	Noncenter (121)	𝑃 value	Center (20)	Noncenter (222)	𝑃 value
Male	21 (64%)	229 (67%)	0.865	9 (69%)	91 (75%)	0.892	12 (60%)	138 (62%)	0.960
Total AMI age	65±11	67±14	0.264	63±11	65±14	0.603	66±10	69±14	0.341
Male	64±11	65±14	0.832	61±13	65±14	0.349	67±10	66±14	0.795
Female	65±10	72±14	0.072	68±7	70±13	0.792	63±12	73±14	0.044
Average cost/day (1000 NT dollars)	26±32	9±11	<0.001	26±32	12±13	0.003	25±33	8±9	<0.001
Male	26±35	10±12	<0.001	30±38	13±14	0.008	23±33	8±10	<0.001
Female	26±29	7±7	<0.001	19±11	9±10	0.070	29±35	7±6	<0.001
Average hospitalization days	14±16	8±12	0.011	14±17	8±8	0.022	14±17	8±14	0.092
Male	15±16	8±13	0.036	15±19	8±9	0.060	15±14	8±15	0.180
Female	13±18	8±11	0.149	12±16	6±5	0.114	13±19	8±12	0.287
Hypertension	9 (28%)	100 (31%)	0.765	3 (25%)	39 (34%)	0.532	6 (30%)	61 (28%)	0.918
Diabetes mellitus	5 (16%)	69 (21%)	0.460	2 (17%)	29 (25%)	0.512	3 (15%)	40 (19%)	0.664
Dyslipidemia	7 (22%)	23 (7%)	0.004	2 (17%)	10 (9%)	0.369	5 (25%)	13 (6%)	0.003
Stroke or transient ischemic attack	1 (3%)	5 (2%)	0.503	0 (0%)	2 (2%)	0.645	1 (5%)	3 (1%)	0.241
Chronic heart failure	3 (9%)	34 (10%)	0.852	1 (8%)	9 (8%)	0.950	2 (10%)	25 (12%)	0.806
Chronic lung disease	1 (3%)	40 (12%)	0.121	1 (8%)	15 (13%)	0.640	0 (0%)	25 (12%)	0.103
Neoplasms	1 (3%)	8 (2%)	0.817	1 (8%)	1 (1%)	0.048	0 (0%)	7 (3%)	0.408
Chronic kidney disease	2 (6%)	8 (2%)	0.214	1 (8%)	2 (2%)	0.152	1 (5%)	6 (3%)	0.591

AMI: acute myocardial infarction, STEMI: ST elevation MI, and NSTEMI: non-ST elevation MI. Only the patients with first onset AMI within the year were included.