Table 5.

Hazard Ratios and 95% CI of 3-year Cardiac Mortality in male and female CHD patients

	Phobic Anxiety Quartile
	1	2	3	4	P for trend
WOMEN
No. of cases	3	5	10	14
Unadjusted	1.0	1.39 (0.33–5.83)	3.10 (0.85–11.28)	4.84 (1.39–16.90)	.002
Multivariate 1†	1.0	2.04 (0.47–8.84)	3.28 (0.88–12.32)	4.11 (1.11–15.22)	.007
Multivariate 2††	1.0	2.34 (0.39–14.17)	2.39 (0.62–9.15)	3.08 (0.71–13.33)	.015
MEN
No. of cases	16	22	9	9
Unadjusted	1.0	0.98 (0.51–1.87)	0.49 (0.21–1.10)	0.86 (0.38–1.95)	.25
Multivariate 1†	1.0	1.10 (0.57–2.12)	0.51 (0.22–1.16)	1.06 (0.46–2.45)	.45
Multivariate 2	1.0	1.07 (0.55–2.08)	0.50 (0.22–1.18)	1.06 (0.45–2.47)	.47

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval

^†Adjusted for a priori selected variables of age, left ventricular ejection fraction, and medical comorbidity.

^††Adjusted for additional variables of beta-blocker use, antidepressant/antianxiety medication use, and presence of an internal cardioverter defibrillator