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3.3 Factors associated with short home-to-hospital delays (≤ 60 min) Younger patients were more likely to have short home-to-hospital delays. Table 4 shows that 66.4% of the patients who had a short home-to-hospital delay were aged 60 or less, compared with 42.9% of those with longer delays. There were no associations with socioeconomic factors but clinical factors were important. Patients who had an STEMI rather than a NSTEMI/UA were more likely to have home-to-hospital delay of ≤ 60 min (p = 0.002), as were those who experienced a greater number of pain symptoms (p = 0.028), and non-pain symptoms (p = 0.012). Patients who were away from home when symptoms started were also more likely to have a short decision delay (p = 0.049).