. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 15.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2008 Mar 19;101(10):1437–1443. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.01.021

Table 3.

Risk of death and myocardial infarction in relation to achieving target heart rate during exercise test

		7-year Follow-up		25-year follow-up

Exercise Test Status		Sudden Death (n= 153)	Fatal/Non-fatal MI (n=824)	CHD Death (n=1,586)	All-cause Mortality (n= 4,642)
Reached Target Heart Rate		1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
(n=10,194)		1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Stopped prematurely	Unadjusted	2.1 (1.5 – 3.0)	1.4 (1.2 – 1.7)	1.6 (1.4 – 1.8)	1.5 (1.4 – 1.6)
(n=2,361)	Adjusted^*	1.8 (1.3 – 2.6)	1.3 (1.1 – 1.5)	1.4 (1.2 – 1.5)	1.3 (1.2 – 1.4)

Abbreviations: CHD: coronary heart disease; MI: myocardial infarction

Adjusted for age, cigarettes smoked per day, systolic blood pressure, low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein, triglycerides, body mass index, fasting glucose, race and parental history of myocardial infarction.

All analyses were stratified by age categories; 35–39 years, 40–44 years, 45–49 years, 50–54 years and 55–57 years.