Secular trends in a population with ischemic heart disease admitted to the Instituto do Coração in São Paulo.

Objective: To assess the clinical and demographic characteristics of a population with ischemic heart disease admitted in the final decades of the 20th century.

Methods: This study retrospectively assessed patients hospitalized with ischemic heart disease divided into the following 2 groups: acute group - 11.181 patients with acute myocardial infarction admitted from 1/1/82 to 12/31/94; and chronic group - 4.

Demographic characteristics of the population undergoing cine coronary angiography at the Instituto do Coração of the Medical School of USP from 1986 to 1995.

Objective: To obtain information about the profile and behavior of a population with ischemic heart disease undergoing cine coronary angiography and to determine disease severity.

Methods: Retrospective study assessing patients hospitalized at InCor from 1986 to 1995, in which the variables age, sex, and number of major coronary arteries with obstruction degree > or =40% were analyzed.

Results: We studied 18,221 patients and observed a significant increase in the number of females (22.