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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 12.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2005 Jun 15;95(12):1474–1477. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2005.02.017

TABLE 3.

Association of Each Gram-per-Deciliter Decrease in Hemoglobin With Low Heart Rate Variability in Older Adults with Coronary Heart Disease*

Unadjusted Adjusted


Variable OR (95% CI) p Value OR (95% CI) p Value
Lowest quartile SDNN (≤95 ms) 1.1 (1.0–1.3) 0.02 1.2 (1.0–1.3) 0.008
Lowest quartile SDANN (≤83 ms) 1.2 (1.1–1.3) 0.004 1.2 (1.1–1.3) 0.002
Lowest quartile LnVLF (≤5.85 ms2) 1.3 (1.1–1.5) 0.001 1.3 (1.1–1.5) 0.001
Lowest quartile LnLF (≤4.67 ms2) 1.2 (1.1–1.4) 0.0001 1.2 (1.1–1.4) 0.0003
Lowest quartile LnHF (≤3.66 ms2) 1.0 (0.9–1.1) 0.89 1.0 (0.9–1.2) 0.51
Lowest quartile LnWBF (≤6.29 ms2) 1.2 (1.1–1.4) 0.003 1.3 (1.1–1.4) 0.002
*

Two hundred eighteen of 873 participants were in the lowest quartile of SDNN, SDANN, LF, and HF, 120 of 478 participants were in the lowest quartile of VLF and WBF.

Adjusted for all variables listed in Table 1.

OR = odds ratio; other abbreviations as in Table 2.