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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2009 Aug 28;104(8):1116–1121. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.05.059

Table 2.

Survival Results According to BMI when Low End of Normal Weight Group Increased to 22.0 kg/m2

Subgroup Kaplan-Meier Analysis
Ischemic Heart Failure
Subgroup		 Body Mass Index n events % survival
≥30.0 kg/m2 144 10 93.1%
≥25.0-29.9 kg/m2 216 53 75.5%
22.0-24.9 kg/m2 114 19 83.3%
Log-rank: 17.5, p<0.001
Non-ischemic Heart
Failure Subgroup		 Body Mass Index n events % survival
≥30.0 kg/m2 267 31 88.4%
≥25.0-29.9 kg/m2 213 29 86.4%
22.0-24.9 kg/m2 88 25 71.6%
Log-rank: 13.4, p<0.01