Table 6.

 Multivariate predictors of five day mortality and in-hospital mortality

	Five day mortality			In-hospital mortality
	OR	95% CI	p Value	OR	95% CI	p Value
Age ⩾70 years	3.57	2.13 to 5.99	0.0001	3.64	2.36 to 3.21	0.0001
Admission systolic arterial pressure <116 mm Hg*	2.56	1.69 to 3.88	0.0001	2.49	1.73 to 3.57	0.0001
Killip class (v class I)			0.0001			0.0001
II or III	2.02	1.28 to 3.19		2.24	1.52 to 3.30
IV	12.90	6.58 to 25.31		11.84	6.12 to 22.92
Anterior MI	1.67	1.12 to 2.49	0.012	1.52	1.08 to 2.14	0.018
Admission heart rate >90 beats/min†	1.69	1.11 to 2.59	0.015	1.76	1.22 to 12.54	0.002
Previous stroke	2.11	1.10 to 4.05	0.025	1.86	1.04 to 3.33	0.036
STEMI	2.05	1.06 to 3.95	0.033	1.93	1.13 to 3.30	0.016
Hyperlipidaemia	0.63	0.41 to 0.97	0.034	NA	NA	NA
Current smoking	0.52	0.27 to 0.98	0.044	0.58	0.34 to 0.98	0.042
Diabetes mellitus	NA	NA	NA	1.47	1.01 to 2.13	0.043

*116 mm Hg corresponds to the limit of the first quartile of systolic blood pressure; †90 beats/min corresponds to the limit of the fourth quartile of admission heart rate.

CI, confidence interval; NA, not applicable; OR, odds ratio.