. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 20.

Published in final edited form as: Compr Ther. 2007;33(2):65–70. doi: 10.1007/s12019-007-8001-z

Table 2.

Association of depression with all-cause mortality

	Hazard ratio (95% confidence interval)	P values
Unadjusted, before matching (n=353)	1.55 (1.004 – 2.39)	0.048
Adjusted for propensity scores, before matching (n=353)	1.77 (1.04 – 3.00)	0.034
Adjusted for covariates,^* before matching (n=353)	1.85 (1.12 – 3.04)	0.016
Propensity-matched (n=94)	2.56 (1.12 – 5.85)	0.026
Propensity-matched, accounted for matching (n=94)	2.50 (0.97 – 6.44)	0.058

Covariates in the final model included age, sex, race, diabetes, use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, lower extremity edema, and serum creatinine.