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Table 1 Patient characteristics following myocardial infarction stratified by prior cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease

From: Risk for recurrent cardiovascular disease events among patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease

 

Prior CVD (n = 89,920)a

Diabetes only (n = 46,032)

CKD only (n = 13,459)

Diabetes and CKD

(n = 13,319)

Age, years, mean (SD)

77.1 (10.3)

72.0 (11.3)

81.1 (9.7)

77.4 (8.9)

Cohort, %

 MarketScan

8.2

18.9

3.5

4.1

 Medicare

91.8

81.1

96.5

95.9

 Males, %

53.3

50.1

44.6

45.4

Race/ethnicity, %b

 Black, Non-hispanic

5.5

9.0

7.7

11.7

 White, Non-hispanic

90.4

82.8

87.7

80.1

 Other

4.0

8.0

4.7

8.1

Geographic region, %

 West

14.4

15.5

16.2

16.3

 Midwest

24.8

24.4

28.3

26.5

 Northeast

20.6

18.0

18.0

17.1

 South

40.2

42.1

37.5

40.0

Area-level income, %b

 < $35,000

7.9

9.7

7.6

10.4

 $35,000–$49,999

33.3

34.5

32.0

35.0

 $50,000–$74,999

36.8

36.6

39.6

36.5

 ≥ $75,000

22.0

19.2

20.8

18.2

 Smoking, %

49.3

40.2

41.2

40.1

 Hypertension, %

92.8

90.6

93.5

97.8

 History of heart failure, %

40.1

31.9

46.7

54.4

 Depression, %

30.2

25.8

28.3

30.3

 Prior MI hospitalization, %

18.9

0.0

0.0

0.0

 Prior CABG/PCI outside of an MI event, %

5.2

0.0

0.0

0.0

 CABG/PCI during the MI event related to the index date, %

52.0

66.5

45.7

51.3

 Cardiologist care, %

57.7

29.6

24.5

23.5

 Endocrinologist care, %

2.3

8.6

2.4

11.0

 Use of insulin, %

0.0

25.0

0.0

40.0

Statin use and intensity, %

 No statin

39.6

51.3

63.1

41.0

 Low

5.7

6.4

5.8

7.5

 Moderate

34.9

32.4

25.5

38.4

 High

19.8

9.9

5.6

13.1

 Ezetimibe use, %

4.2

2.3

1.6

2.9

 Antihypertensive medication use, %

93.0

91.4

92.5

95.7

  1. CABG coronary artery bypass graft, CKD chronic kidney disease, CVD cardiovascular disease, PCI percutaneous coronary intervention, MI myocardial infarction, SD standard deviation
  2. aThis group included patients with prior cardiovascular disease without diabetes or chronic kidney disease. Patients with prior cardiovascular disease and diabetes or chronic kidney disease were excluded from the analysis
  3. bAmong Medicare beneficiaries only