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Table 3 Mean age at AMI onset and percentage of previous AMI in the western (mean high SES) and north-eastern (mean low SES) districts of Oslo

From: Impact of neighbourhood-level socioeconomic status, traditional coronary risk factors, and ancestry on age at myocardial infarction onset: A population-based register study

 

Total population

Presumed Northwest-European ancestry

 

Western districts

North-eastern districts

Western districts

North-eastern districts

Mean age (years) at AMI onset

73.89

68.99**

74.36

72.78

Mean age (years) at AMI onset when only including patients with a first time AMI

71.97

65.88**

70.27

72.49

Previous AMI (%)

27.42

35.55*

27.17

38.16*

  1. *p ≤ 0.05 and **p ≤ 0.001 compared with the corresponding population in the western districts. The number of patients reported having a first time AMI were 262, 136, 252, and 94 in the four populations, respectively. Previous myocardial infarction was reported as unknown in 30, 4, 29, and 4 patients in the four populations, respectively