en Health Health Original Research Original Research <div>Background: Myocardial Infarction (MI) is a main cause of death and disability worldwide, which</div><div>involves a number of genetic, physiopathologic and socio-economic determinants. The aim of this</div><div>study was to assess the patterns of association between education, wealth and some other risk factors</div><div>with non-fatal MI in Tehran population.</div><div>Methods: Data derived from a second round of large cross-sectional study, Urban HEART-2, conducted</div><div>in Tehran in 2011. Out of 118542 participants, all 249 self-reported incident cases of nonfatal</div><div>MI were selected as the case group. A number of 996, matched on age and sex, were selected as</div><div>controls. Principle component analysis (PCA) was used to calculate wealth index and logistic regression</div><div>model to assess relations between the study variables.</div><div>Results: Mean (SD) age of participants was 60.25 (12.26) years. A total of 870 (69.9%) of the</div><div>study subjects were men. Education, wealth status, family violence, hypertension and diabetes were</div><div>observed as independent predictors of non-fatal MI. Overall, as the level of education increased, the</div><div>odds of non-fatal MI decreased (p<0.001). We observed an almost J-shaped association between</div><div>wealth status and non-fatal MI. No significant associations were found between marital status, BMI</div><div>and current smoking with non-fatal MI (p<0.05).</div><div>Conclusion: We found different patterns of association between education and wealth with nonfatal</div><div>MI among Tehran adults. Lower risk of non-fatal MI is linked to high educated groups whereas economically</div><div>moderate group has the lowest risk of non-fatal MI occurrence</div> Myocardial infarction, Education, Wealth, Case-control, Iran 8 15 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1984-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Bahman Cheraghian cheraghian2000@yahoo.com 200319475328460017912 200319475328460017912 Yes Saharnaz Nejat nejatsan@tums.ac.ir 200319475328460017913 200319475328460017913 No Mohammad Ali Mansournia mansournia_ma@yahoo.com 200319475328460017914 200319475328460017914 No Reza Majdzadeh rezamajd@tums.ac.ir 200319475328460017915 200319475328460017915 No Kazem Mohammad mohamadk@tums.ac.ir 200319475328460017916 200319475328460017916 No Mohammad Reza Vaez-Mahdavi vaezmahdavi@shahed.ac.ir 200319475328460017917 200319475328460017917 No Soghrat Faghihzadeh faghihz@modares.ac.ir 200319475328460017918 200319475328460017918 No Ali Asghar Haeri Mehrizi Haeri.stat@gmail.com 200319475328460017919 200319475328460017919 No Mohsen Asadi-Lari mohsen.asadi@yahoo.com 200319475328460017920 200319475328460017920 No