Table 3.

Odds ratios for cardiac events during the two year follow up period

	Odds ratio	95% CI	p Value
MCSF	4.1	1.1 to 14.8	0.03
IL-6	1.29	0.68 to 2.4	0.4
TNFα	0.83	0.27 to 2.5	0.7
Age	1.04	0.99 to 1.1	0.1
Sex	0.7	0.21 to 2.35	0.6
Hypertension	1.7	0.62 to 4.60	0.3
Diabetes mellitus	1.34	0.47 to 3.80	0.6

CI, confidence interval; IL-6, interleukin-6; MCSF, macrophage colony stimulating factor; TNFα, tumour necrosis factor α.