Jailing polymer jacketed guide-wires during bifurcation coronary interventions is associated with procedural myocardial infarction

Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study population

	No PMI (n = 270)	PMI (n = 23)	P value
Age (yr)	63.6 ± 12.1	62.9 ± 14.4	0.80
Male sex	68.1%	60.9%	0.49
Smoking	55.6%	52.2%	0.86
Diabetes mellitus	33.0%	43.5%	0.36
Hypertension	78.1%	65.2%	0.33
Hyperlipidemia	73.7%	78.3%	0.87
Acute coronary syndrome	45.6%	52.2%	0.66

PMI: Procedural myocardial infarction.