Clinical univariate predictors of death or non-fatal myocardial infarction at 30 days and 12 months
| 30 day follow up | 12 month follow up | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | No event (n=288) | Event (n=15) | p Value | No event (n=261) | Event (n=28) | p Value |
| Data are numbers (percentages) except for age, which is mean (standard deviation). *Patients with new episodes of chest pain >12 hours after admission; †clinical evidence of left ventricular failure (LVF) during admission; ‡documented arrhythmia during admission. | ||||||
| Age (years) | 60.1 (11.6) | 64.5 (9.6) | 0.16 | 60.0 (11.1) | 67.5 (11.3) | 0.001 |
| Male sex | 170 (72.3) | 14 (93.3) | 0.11 | 192 (73.9) | 23 (82.1) | 0.34 |
| Diabetes | 50 (21.2) | 5 (33.3) | 0.28 | 53 (20.3) | 11 (39.3) | 0.03 |
| Hypertension | 107 (45.3) | 8 (53.3) | 0.55 | 116 (44.4) | 14 (50.0) | 0.58 |
| Smoking | 74 (31.4) | 4 (26.7) | 0.7 | 85 (32.6) | 6 (21.4) | 0.23 |
| Chest pain >12 hours* | 15 (6.5) | 4 (26.7) | 0.01 | 16 (6.2) | 7 (25.0) | 0.001 |
| LVF† | 70 (30.2) | 13 (86.7) | <0.0001 | 96 (37.4) | 15 (53.6) | 0.10 |
| Arrhythmias‡ | 2 (0.9) | 2 (13.3) | 0.006 | 2 (0.8) | 2 (7.1) | 0.03 |