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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Epidemiol. 2007 Jul 27;17(11):870–877. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2007.05.012

Table 4.

Cox proportional hazard ratios (and 95% confidence intervals) for NCEP-MetS/diabetes categories predicting CVD mortality stratified by sex and ethnic group.

Women P* Men P† P‡
Non-Hispanic White
 DM, no; MetS, no 1.00 1.00
 DM, no; MetS, yes 1.31 (0.49, 3.50) ---- 1.60 (0.81, 3.15) ---- 0.740
 DM, yes; MetS, no 3.47 (1.18, 10.2) ---- 0.98 (0.23, 4.12) ---- 0.166
 DM, yes; MetS, yes 3.22 (1.29, 8.09) ---- 2.76 (1.20, 6.34) ---- 0.805
Mexican American
 DM, no; MetS, no 1.00 1.00
 DM, no; MetS, yes 3.27 (1.56, 6.88) 0.145 1.52 (0.83, 2.79) 0.913 0.118
 DM, yes; MetS, no 5.19 (1.84, 14.6) 0.598 2.98 (1.53, 5.80) 0.166 0.375
 DM, yes; MetS, yes 11.2 (6.01, 21.0) 0.027 3.66 (2.23, 5.98) 0.566 0.005
P*

p values for ethnic group interaction in women;

P†

p values for ethnic-group interaction in men;

P‡

p values for sex interaction in non-Hispanic whites and Mexican Americans.