Table 2 Mortality rates per 1000 person years for 13029 patients with incident IHD between 1 January 1996 and 17 December 2003.

Cohort	Person time (years)	Number of deaths	Rate/1000 person years	95% CI
Age (years)
0–44	824	8	9.7	4.9 to 19.4
45–54	3923	40	10.2	7.5 to 13.9
55–64	9270	156	16.8	14.4 to 19.7
65–74	13636	447	32.8	29.9 to 36.0
75–84	11827	911	77.0	72.2 to 82.2
85–94	3744	626	167.2	154.6 to 180.8
⩾95	235	78	331.4	265.4 to 413.7
Total	43460	2266	52.1	50.0 to 54.3
Women	18539	1003	54.1	50.9 to 57.6
Men	24920	1263	50.7	48.0 to 53.6
No diabetes	39814	1978	49.7	47.5 to 51.9
Diabetes	3646	288	79.0	70.4 to 88.7
No hypertension	30912	1570	50.8	48.3 to 53.4
Hypertension	12547	696	55.5	51.5 to 59.8
No CCF	37391	1546	41.4	39.3 to 43.5
CCF	6069	720	118.6	110.3 to 127.6

CCF, congestive cardiac failure.