Study Population
Demographic and clinical characteristics of all patients are shown in Table 1. There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of gender and age. Among the patients participating in the study, 147 people were in the intervention group, 95 of them were men (64.6%) and 52 were women (35.4%), and their average age was 59.85. Also, out of 117 patients participating in the control group, 65 were men (55.6%) and 52 were women (44.4%), whose average age was 61.78. In terms of coronary artery disease risk factors (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and cigarette smoking) there was no significant difference between the two groups.
Also, out of the total of 147 patients studied in the intervention group, the location of myocardial infarction in 56.5% of cases was in the anterior regions, 39.3% in the lower regions and in 4.6% in the lateral regions. In the control group, the location of myocardial infarction in 45.3% of cases was in the anterior regions, in 52.1% in the lower regions and in 2.6% in the lateral regions, and also in this sense, no significant difference was observed between the two studied groups (Table 2).