Quality of life in female myocardial infarction survivors: a comparative study with a randomly selected general female population cohort

Table 1 Socio-demographics: a comparison between female myocardial infarction (MI) survivors and a general female population cohort

	MI survivors (n = 145 ^† )	General population (n = 156 ^† )	p-value*
Age			< 0.001^a
- Mean	72	70
- Range	62–80	62–80
Cohabitation			0.342^b
- Living alone	60	55
- Cohabitation	85	100
Marital status			0.351^b
- Divorced	7	9
- Widowed	62	51
- Unmarried	6	6
- Married	68	87
Educational status			0.364^c
- Elementary school up to 6 years	61	83
- Elementary school up to 9 years and high school	70	52
- University/college < 4 years	7	11
- University/college > 4 years	1	8

*Significance for differences in proportions by t-test^a, exact Chi-square test^b, or exact Mann-Whitney test^c.^†n varies between the variables because of missing values.

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