Age standardised clinical characteristics, treatments, and diagnostic procedures (%) by income among men and women aged 35–64 years with their first myocardial infarction who were hospitalised alive during 1983–1992; the FINMONICA Myocardial Infarction Register Study
Definite MI | Delay >4 hours3-150 | Treatment at specialist hospital | Thrombolysis3-150 | Angiography3-150during 28 days | Revascularisation3-150during 0–365 days | |
Men (n = 4799) | ||||||
Income | ||||||
Low | 64.9 | 46.8 | 80.0 | 20.9 | 3.3 | 10.2 |
(62.5, 67.3) | (43.0, 50.6) | (78.0, 82.0) | (17.8, 24.0) | (1.9, 4.7) | (7.9, 12.5) | |
Middle | 67.8 | 43.4 | 86.0 | 19.2 | 5.5 | 15.8 |
(65.7, 69.9) | (40.0, 46.8) | (84.4, 87.6) | (16.5, 21.9) | (4.0, 7.0) | (13.3, 18.3) | |
High | 71.1 | 41.8 | 90.6 | 25.2 | 8.5 | 20.0 |
(68.2, 74.0) | (37.6, 46.0) | (88.7, 92.5) | (21.5, 28.9) | (6.2, 10.8) | (16.7, 23.3) | |
Women (n = 1669) | ||||||
Income | ||||||
Low | 52.9 | 47.2 | 81.5 | 14.3 | 6.6 | 12.6 |
(49.4, 56.4) | (42.2, 52.7) | (79.0, 84.0) | (10.4, 18.2) | (4.1, 9.1) | (8.8, 16.4) | |
Middle | 46.0 | 54.6 | 89.1 | 11.1 | 11.6 | 18.5 |
(40.3, 51.7) | (46.4, 62.8) | (85.7, 92.5) | (5.7, 16.5) | (5.5, 17.7) | (11.2, 25.8) | |
High | 50.0 | 49.1 | 87.0 | 12.6 | 7.6 | 10.6 |
(44.2, 55.8) | (41.2, 57.0) | (82.9, 91.1) | (7.3, 17.9) | (3.8, 11.4) | (6.1, 15.1) |
↵3-150 Data are for the years 1988–1992 only, n=2204 for men and 746 for women.