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Table 1 Patient’s characteristics, PCI details separately by DAPT adherence and non-adherence (N = 2019)

From: The effects of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) adherence on survival in patients undergoing revascularization and the determinants of DAPT adherence

Variables

Total

DAPT non-adherence (n = 470)

DAPT adherence (n = 1594)

P value

N

%

N

%

Age (years)a

2064

57.85 (mean)

10.72 (SD)

56.38 (mean)

10.77 (SD)

0.01

 Age < 60 years old

1124

233

49.6%

891

55.9%

0.02

 Age ≥ 60 years old

940

237

50.4%

703

44.1%

 

Sex

     

0.06

 Female

504

130

27.7%

374

23.5%

 

 Male

1560

340

72.3%

1220

76.5%

 

Hypertension

830

195

41.5%

635

39.8%

0.56

Diabetes

662

157

33.4%

505

31.7%

0.52

Eligible CAD type

     

0.44

 Previous MI

289

73

15.5%

216

13.6%

 

 Acute coronary syndrome

1126

246

52.3%

880

55.2%

 

 Chronic stable angina/positive stress test

649

151

32.1%

498

31.2%

 

Status of tobacco use

     

0.18

 Non-smoker

1511

356

75.7%

1155

72.5%

 

 Current/past smoker

553

114

24.3%

439

27.5%

 

Education in middle school or above

1059

240

51.1%

819

51.4%

0.95

Employed

864

197

41.9%

667

41.8%

1.00

Underwent intervention in Mumbai

676

138

29.4%

538

33.8%

0.08

Stent locations

     

0.26

 LAD

854

198

42.1%

656

41.2%

 

 RCA

388

75

16.0%

313

19.6%

 

 LCX

195

51

10.9%

144

9.0%

 

 Multiple stents

627

146

31.1%

481

30.2%

 

Stent type

     

0.27

 BMS

1057

256

54.5%

801

50.3%

 

 DES

934

198

42.1%

736

46.2%

 

 DES and BMS

73

16

3.4%

57

3.6%

 

Year of PTCA

     

0.29

 2012

441

99

21.1%

342

21.5%

 

 2013

718

150

31.9%

568

35.6%

 

 2014

413

95

20.2%

318

19.9%

 

 2015

492

126

26.8%

366

23.0%

 

Stent details

 

mean

SD

mean

SD

 

 Total number of stents per patienta

 

1.52 (mean)

0.70 (SD)

1.52 (mean)

0.66 (SD)

0.89

 Total stent length per patient (mm)a

 

30.75 (mean)

19.48 (SD)

31.18 (mean)

19.61 (SD)

0.67

Medicine use

      

 Aspirin

1767

173

36.8%

1594

100.0%

 < 0.001

 Clopidogrel

1544

90

19.1%

1454

91.2%

 < 0.001

 Prasugrel

182

21

4.5%

161

10.1%

 < 0.001

 Ticlopidine

22

2

0.4%

20

1.3%

0.20

 Antihypertension

1301

264

56.2%

1037

65.1%

 < 0.001

Self-reported drug availability

      

 Drugs easily available

1507

330

70.2%

1177

73.8%

0.13

 Medicine affordable

678

140

29.8%

538

33.8%

0.12

 Close to pharmacy

1296

271

57.7%

1025

64.3%

0.01

  1. MI, myocardial infraction; BMS, bare-metal stent; DES, drug-eluting stent; LAD, left anterior descending artery; LCX, left circumflex artery; RCA, right coronary artery; PTCA, Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
  2. aContinuous variable, mean and standard deviation are presented