Table 2 Characteristics in towns with coronary inframortality compared with the country's remaining towns
From: Towns with extremely low mortality due to ischemic heart disease in Spain
TOWNS WITH CORONARY INFRAMORTALITY | REMAINING TOWNS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 32) | (n = 7953) | ||||
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p | |
Population | 4,164 | 6,357 | 4,541 | 42,266 | 0.960 |
Provincial population | 359,351 | 200,638 | 826,639 | 1,166,109 | 0.023 |
Socioeconomic indicators * | |||||
% Illiteracy | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 0.307 |
% Unemployment | 11.6 | 4.3 | 15.4 | 11.7 | 0.066 |
% Agriculture | 28.5 | 16.9 | 36.0 | 21.4 | 0.046 |
% Population > = 65 years | 22.7 | 7.3 | 23.5 | 9.5 | 0.635 |
Rurality index | -0.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.486 |
Deprivation index | -0.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.174 |
Socioeconomic index | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.173 |
Index of disposable family | 5.3 | 1.4 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 0.156 |
income | |||||
Health indicators | |||||
Licensed physicians per province/1000 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 4.6 | 0.9 | 0.921 |
Hospital beds per province/1000 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 0.8 | 0.101 |
Hemodynamic units/106 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 0.001 |
Angiography units/106 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 0.450 |
Content of diet (gr/person/day) | |||||
Total calories, Kcal/per/day | 2,716.0 | 275.9 | 2,626.5 | 234.7 | 0.032 |
Total fat | 34.5 | 6.9 | 33.0 | 7.6 | 0.251 |
Fish | 93.6 | 21.7 | 75.7 | 14.7 | < 0.001 |
Folic acid | 2.8 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 0.060 |
Olive oil | 34.5 | 6.9 | 33.0 | 7.6 | 0.252 |
Wine | 101.1 | 57.8 | 72.2 | 40.5 | < 0.001 |
Alcohol | 12.4 | 6.2 | 9.7 | 4.3 | < 0.001 |
Prevalence of vascular risk factors** (%) | |||||
Arterial hypertension | 20.7 | 2.4 | 20.6 | 2.5 | 0.809 |
Hypercholesterolemia | 9.1 | 1.3 | 9.4 | 1.6 | 0.216 |
Obesity | 10.7 | 1.7 | 11.7 | 2.2 | 0.007 |
Diabetes mellitus | 6.4 | 1.1 | 7.3 | 1.7 | 0.002 |
Sedentarism | 39.6 | 7.6 | 42.5 | 8.7 | 0.059 |
Smoking | 27.2 | 2.4 | 28.1 | 2.3 | 0.040 |
Pattern of mortality and competitive mortality (SMR) | |||||
General mortality men | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.638 |
General mortality women | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.587 |
Age at death | 77.6 | 15.3 | 75.7 | 15.8 | < 0.001 |
Tumor-related mortality | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.782 |
Ill-defined causes of death | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.692 |