Table 1 Patients’ clinical and echocardiographic characteristics

Age/years (mean ± SD)

Sex (males%)

Hypertension n (%)

Smoking n (%)

15 (68.2%)

11 (52.4%)

0.289**

Chest pain duration/h (mean ± SD)

6.36 ± 3.2

9.81 ± 5.2

0.019***

BMI (kg/m2)

26.64 ± 4.8

25.52 ± 4.7

0.448*

Heart rate (beat/min)

84.09 ± 14.0

92.05 ± 11.2

0.050*

SBP (mm/Hg)

118.46 ± 21.7

122.38 ± 23.2

0.587*

DBP (mm/Hg)

75.91 ± 11.2

77.14 ± 15.1

0.767*

Killip score

0.951*

 Class I

19 (86.4%)

18 (85.7%)

 Class II

3 (13.6%)

3 (14.3%)

Anterior n (%)

7 (31.8%)

13 (61.9%)

0.048**

Admission sum of STE/mm (mean ± SD)

11.09 ± 9.8

18.14 ± 7.9

0.002***

Admission max STE/mm (mean ± SD)

3.59 ± 2.3

5.10 ± 1.8

0.003***

Resolution of STE n (%)

0.625**

 ≥ 50–70

10 (45.5%)

8 (38.1%)

 ≥ 70

12 (54.5%)

13 (61.9%)

LDL (mg/dl) (mean ± SD)

108.41 ± 35.5

106.38 ± 28.6

0.874***

S. creatinine (mg/dl) (mean ± SD)

0.95 ± 0.2

1.01 ± 0.2

0.259***

Initial CK-MB (ng/ml) (mean ± SD)

57.14 ± 36.9

64.76 ± 42.5

0.381***

Peak CK-MB (ng/ml) (mean ± SD)

245.23 ± 184.3

306.38 ± 174.2

0.162***

HBA1c

5.11 ± 0.9

5.50 ± 0.9

0.087***

Classic WMSI (mean ± SD)

1.38 ± 0.3

1.52 ± 0.2

0.042***

LVESV (ml) (mean ± SD)

41.71 ± 13.7

40.96 ± 12.7

0.356***

LVEDV (ml) (mean ± SD)

81.95 ± 18.5

75.60 ± 15.9

0.789***

EF % (mean ± SD)

54.05 ± 11.5

50.81 ± 12.0

0.462***