Some socioeconomic characteristics of acute myocardial infarction patients in the Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez. Comparison of two decades: 1954-1964 and 1997-2007.
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0BJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare some social and economic conditions of patients with myocardial infarction (AMI), admitted to the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chávez (INC-ICh), in two decades: 1954-1964 vs. 1997-2007.


STUDY DESIGN
an observational and retrospective study was carried out.


METHOD
All discharged patients between 1997-2007 with AMI diagnosis according to International Statistical Classification of Disease 10th Revision codes I 21 - I 21.9 were included. Information about age, sex, marital status, socioeconomic level, occupation and current address were obtained from the patient's file. The findings were compared with a previous published paper from 1954-64.


RESULTS
The number of AMI cases increased five times between both decades, and significant changes were observed in occupational activity and in the socioeconomic level.


CONCLUSIONS
Some social and economic factors have changed over the years; however, age and gender of patients with AMI are variables that did not showed significant changes: most young patients are male, and women are older when they have a fist AMI.