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Table 1 Patients’ baseline characteristics

From: The bizzare phenomenon of smokers’ paradox in the immediate outcome post acute myocardial infarction: an insight into the Malaysian National Cardiovascular Database-Acute Coronary Syndrome (NCVD-ACS) registry year 2006–2013

 

Active smokers (n = 12,442)

Non-smokers (n = 10,666)

P value

Age

 Mean

53.7 (53.46, 53.83)

62.3 (62.09, 62.45)

<0.001*

 Standard deviation

11.29

11.64

 

Gender

 Male

12182 (97.9 %)

5712 (53.6 %)

<0.001

 Female

260 (2.1 %)

4954 (46.4 %)

 

Ethnicity

 Malay

7398 (59.5 %)

4879 (45.7 %)

 

 Chinese

2173 (17.5 %)

2409 (22.6 %)

<0.001

 Indian

1920 (15.4 %)

2755 (25.8 %)

 

 Others

951 (7.6 %)

623 (5.8 %)

 

Risk factors/co-morbidities

 Dyslipidaemia

2933 (23.6 %)

3838 (36.0 %)

<0.001

 Hypertension

5267 (42.3 %)

7390 (69.3 %)

<0.001

 Diabetes

3691 (29.7 %)

5627 (52.8 %)

<0.001

 Family history premature CAD

1595 (12.8 %)

1051 (9.9 %)

<0.001

 Cerebrovascular disease

228 (1.8 %)

469 (4.4 %)

<0.001

 Peripheral vascular disease

43 (0.3 %)

97 (0.9 %)

<0.001

 Chronic lung disease

276 (2.2 %)

264 (2.5 %)

<0.001

 Congestive heart failure

416 (3.3 %)

885 (8.3 %)

<0.001

 Chronic renal failure

311 (2.5 %)

1028 (9.6 %)

<0.001

ACS diagnosis

 STEMI

9609 (77.2 %)

5684 (53.3 %)

<0.001

 NSTEMI

2833 (22.8 %)

4982 (46.7 %)

 

Killip class

 Killip 1

6712 (66.1 %)

5092 (61.9 %)

 

 Killip 2

2081 (20.5 %)

1951 (23.7 %)

<0.001

 Killip 3

429 (4.2 %)

515 (6.3 %)

 

 Killip 4

939 (9.2 %)

672 (8.2 %)

 
  1. STEMI ST elevation myocardial infarction, NSTEMI non-ST elevation myocardial infarction
  2. All P values are calculated using the Chi-square test unless stated
  3. T test