Table 4.
Incidence rates per 1000 person-years and hazard rate ratios of heart failure hospitalization by self-reported Gothenburg scores, race, and sex among 15 430 ARIC Study participants, 1987–2004
| Score | All participants | Caucasians |
African Americans |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males (N = 5316) | Females (N = 5989) | Males (N = 1558) | Females (N = 2567) | ||
| Incidence rate (95% CI)a | |||||
| 0 | 5.40 (5.01, 5.79) | 5.82 (5.19, 6.44) | 3.63 (3.09, 4.17) | 7.87 (6.51, 9.23) | 7.11 (5.85, 8.37) |
| 1 | 6.73 (5.92, 7.53) | 11.51 (9.38, 13.64) | 3.1 (2.33, 3.87) | 13.43 (8.59, 18.27) | 8.46 (6.46, 10.46) |
| 2 | 10.48 (9.42, 11.54) | 15.47 (12.86, 18.07) | 8.04 (6.63, 9.46) | 17.98 (12.5, 23.46) | 9.56 (7.36, 11.76) |
| 3 | 20.99 (17.87, 24.1) | 33.95 (22.92, 44.97) | 16.63 (12.59, 20.68) | 32.27 (16.44, 48.1) | 18.67 (13.25, 24.08) |
| Hazard rate ratio (95% CI)b | |||||
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1.23 (1.07, 1.42) | 2.01 (1.62, 2.48) | 0.86 (0.65, 1.15) | 1.60 (1.06, 2.41) | 1.18 (0.87, 1.59) |
| 2 | 2.17 (1.92, 2.43) | 2.99 (2.48, 3.61) | 2.29 (1.85, 2.84) | 2.66 (1.91, 3.70) | 1.61 (1.24, 2.10) |
| 3 | 3.98 (3.37, 4.70) | 5.69 (4.19, 7.73) | 4.96 (3.74, 6.59) | 4.27 (2.57, 7.10) | 2.71 (1.94, 3.77) |
ARIC, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study; CI, confidence interval; HF, heart failure; IR, incidence rate.
aAge standardized and presented per 1000 person-years.
bAge adjusted.