Table 3.

Prospective association between pancreatic iron levels and cardiac arrhythmias: multivariable-adjusted Cox regression analysis accounting for several confounding variables.

	Multivariate Analysis with Global Pancreas T2* as Fixed Independent Variable
	Predictor	HR (95% CI)	p-Value
Model 1: crude	pancreas T2*	0.89 (0.81–0.98)	0.015
Model 2: inclusion of age and gender	pancreas T2*	0.88 (0.78–0.99)	0.026
	age	1.11 (1.05–1.19)	0.001
	male gender	3.48 (1.32–9.15)	0.012
Model 3: inclusion of diabetes	pancreas T2*	0.89 (0.82–0.98)	0.023
	diabetes	2.37 (0.91–6.21)	0.078
Model 3: inclusion of left atrial area index	pancreas T2*	0.89 (0.79–0.98)	0.024
	left atrial area index	1.39 (1.20–1.62)	<0.0001
Model 4: inclusion of previous arrhythmias	pancreas T2*	0.89 (0.82–0.98)	0.021
	previous arrhythmias	11.32 (3.27–39.19)	<0.0001

HR = hazard ratio, and CI = confidence interval.