Acute coronary syndrome patterns in the Young: risk factor profile and in-hospital outcomes in a tertiary referral hospital in Kenya

Table 1 Basic demographic profile of the cohort

Variable	Overall, N = 134¹	STEMI, N = 77¹	NSTEMI, N = 57¹	p-value²
Age in years, Median (IQR)	46.5 (41.0–50.0)	46.0 (41.0–50.0)	47.0 (42.0–50.0)	0.79
Categories of age-group, n (%) < 40 41–45 45–50	31(23.1) 30(22.4) 73(54.5)	18(23.4) 16(20.8) 43(55.8)	13(22.8) 14(24.6) 30(52.6)	0.87
Ethnicity, n (%) African South Asian Other	82(61.2) 40(29.9) 12(9.0)	48(62.3) 25(32.5) 4(5.2)	34(59.6) 15(26.3) 8(4.0)	0.19
Gender, n (%) Female Male	27(20.1) 107(79.9)	10(13.0) 67(87.0)	17(29.8) 40(70.2)	0.016
Body Mass Index (BMI), Median (IQR)	29.6 (26.0–32.0)	28.3 (25.7–32.0)	30.0 (26.9–32.3)	0.23
Categories of BMI, n (%) Normal (18.5–24.9 Kg/m2) Overweight (25-29.9 Kg/m2) Obese (> 30 Kg/m2)	15(14.9) 39(38.6) 47(46.5)	9(15.8) 25(43.9) 23(40.4)	6(13.6) 14(31.8) 24(54.5)	0.39

¹Median (IQR) or Frequency (%) ²Wilcoxon rank sum test; Pearson’s Chi-squared test; Fisher’s exact test. NSTEMI: Non- ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, STEMI: ST- Elevation Myocardial Infarction, BMI: Body Mass Index.

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