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Table 1 Characteristics of the study population

From: Participation in disease management programs and major adverse cardiac events in patients after acute myocardial infarction: a longitudinal study based on registry data

  

DMP only

CR only

Both

None

Total

N = 83

N = 451

N = 189

N = 371

N = 1094

Age (mean)

Years

70.9

64.9

64.5

69.9

67.0

(95% CI)

(68.5–73.2)

(63.8–66.0)

(62.9–66.1)

(68.6–71.2)

(66.2–67.7)

Age groups

pct

     

25–49

 

3.6

11.5

12.2

6.2

9.2

50–59

 

16.9

25.1

22.2

18.9

21.9

60–69

 

19.3

28.2

27.5

20.5

24.8

70–79

 

42.2

23.7

33.3

31.0

29.3

80+

 

18.1

11.5

4.8

23.5

14.9

Male sex

pct

77.1

71.8

68.3

69.5

70.8

 

(95% CI)

(66.6–85.6)

(67.4–76.0)

(61.1–74.8)

(64.6–74.2)

(68.1–73.5)

Diabetes

pct

27.7

18.6

9.5

14.8

16.5

(95% CI)

(18.5–38.6)

(15.1–22.5)

(5.7–14.6)

(11.4–18.9)

(14.3–18.8)

Smoker

pct

19.3

38.1

30.2

28.0

31.9

(95% CI)

(11.4–29.4)

(33.6–42.8)

(23.7–37.2)

(23.5–32.9)

(29.2–34.8)

Hypertension

pct

91.6

83.2

79.4

83.8

83.4

(95% CI)

(85.6–97.4)

(79.4–86.5)

(72.9–84.9)

(79.7–87.4)

(81.0–85.5)

Obesity

pct

20.5

25.9

17.5

18.9

21.7

(95% CI)

(12.4–30.8)

(22.0–30.3)

(12.3–23.6)

(15.0–23.2)

(19.3–24.2)

STEMI

Pct

28.9

51.0

48.7

34.0

43.1

(95% CI)

(19.5–39.9)

(46.3–55.7)

(41.4–56.0)

(29.2–39.0)

(40.2–46.1)

  1. DMP disease management program, CR cardiac rehabilitation; smoker and diabetes only relevant if being current at the time of the initial myocardial infarction registered in the data base
  2. age/age groups = age in years at the time of the initial acute myocardial infarction