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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2008 Mar 14;198(2):294–300. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.12.062

Table 1.

Risk ratios of CHD according to tertiles of sTM, fibrinogen, factor VIIIc and PAI-1ag

Parameter RR (95% CI)§
Lower tertile Middle tertile Upper tertile
sTM* 1 0.43 (0.24–0.75) 0.27 (0.16–0.48)
Fibrinogen* 1 1.04 (0.58–1.84) 2.19 (1.32–3.64)
Factor VIIIc* 1 1.30 (0.74–2.26) 0.67 (0.39–1.14)
PAI-1* 1 0.68 (0.38–1.23) 1.09 (0.60–1.98)
§

Risk ratio and 95% confidence interval (CI) for the time to CHD development after adjusting for age, sex, race, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, total cholesterol, HDL, cigarette smoking and alcohol intake

*

sTM: lower tertile < 28.3 ng/ml, and upper tertile ≥ 43.2 ng/ml; Fibrinogen: lower tertile < 269 mg/dl, and upper tertile ≥ 316 mg/dl; Factor VIIIc: lower tertile < 114%, and upper tertile ≥ 143%; PAI-1ag: lower tertile ≤ 10.7 ng/ml, and upper tertile ≥ 23.4 ng/ml.