TY - JOUR AU - Deora, Surender AU - Kumar, Tarun AU - Ramalingam, Rangaraj AU - Manjunath, Chollenhalli Nanjappa PY - 2016 TI - Demographic and angiographic profile in premature cases of acute coronary syndrome: analysis of 820 young patients from South India JF - Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy; Vol 6, No 3 (June 01, 2016): Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy Y2 - 2016 KW - N2 - Background: Prevalence of acute coronary syndrome in young individuals is increasing progressively. Previous studies have focused on the analysis of risk factors and to some extent coronary angiographic profile in young vs. old patients with acute coronary syndrome, but no study compared the angiographic profile in young patients based on the type of acute coronary syndrome. So, this study was conducted to determine the differences in demographic and coronary angiographic profile of young patients with ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) vs. those with non-ST-elevated myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) or unstable angina (UA). Methods: We retrospectively analyzed young patients (age: Results: Of 8,268 patients who underwent coronary angiography during the study period, 820 (~10%) were ≤40 year age. Of them, 611 exhibited STEMI and 209 exhibited NSTEMI/UA. Angiographic analysis revealed that single-vessel disease was significantly more common in the STEMI group (56.6% vs. 36.6% respectively; P vs. 10.5% respectively; P vs. 40.2% respectively; P vs. 23.4% respectively; P Conclusions: In the present study, significant differences were observed in coronary risk factor profile and angiographic features between young patients with STEMI and NSTEMI/UA. Larger studies will be required to establish specific associations between presentation of acute coronary syndromes and angiographic profiles in young patients. UR - https://cdt.amegroups.org/article/view/9413