OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to analyse demography data of patients registered with acute myocardial infarction according to type of institute.

METHODS: Data were retrieved from the financial database of National Institute of Health Insurance Fund Administration. Patients selected were active inpatients belonging to the main category of cardiovascular diseases with the main diagnosis justifying care being acute myocardial infarction (Type 3) and admitted under code I21 according to the international classification of diseases. Demography data (gender, mean age) were analysed according to type of institute, taking into consideration the number of patients registered using descriptive statistics. The period analysed was 2010-2017 in Hungary.

RESULTS: During the 8-year period analysed, the data of 157,876 patients were registered at various types of health care institutions. In all the years, the highest patient numbers were registered at county hospitals, followed by university and city hospitals in each case. In 2010, 30.4% of patients, in 2017, 38.6% of patients were admitted to county hospitals. At types of institutes treating the majority of patients (university hospitals, national institutes, hospitals in the Capital), the male ratio was higher in all the years analysed. Regarding mean age, the mean age of females was higher than that of males in all the years under observation: at national institutes (2017: 69.85 vs. 63.80), university- (2017: 70.38 vs. 64.20), county- (2017: 70.53 vs. 63.92), Capital (2017: 74.60 vs. 66.70) and in city hospitals (2017: 73.65 vs. 66.39).

CONCLUSIONS: Consequently, similar to other studies, our investigation identified the male gender as risk factor. In addition, based on our results it can be clearly seen that the mean age of patients treated at city hospitals or hospitals in the Capital is significantly higher than in other types of institute.