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. 2011 Feb 15;4:39. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-39

Table 6.

Risk equation incorporating time since quitting and pack-years into smoking status (Model 3)

Variable Parameter Estimate Standard Error Chi-Square P value Hazard Ratio 95% CI
Sex 0.66172 0.11252 34.5854 <.0001 1.938 1.555 2.416
Sbp 0.03508 0.00306 131.2240 <.0001 1.036 1.030 1.042
Dbp -0.04076 0.00621 43.1167 <.0001 0.960 0.948 0.972
Total/HDL ratio 0.22727 0.03592 40.0381 <.0001 1.255 1.170 1.347
Diabetes 0.88176 0.15423 32.6873 <.0001 2.415 1.785 3.268
Trglycerides -0.00170 0.00059 8.2356 0.0041 0.998 0.997 0.999
Time since quitting
< = 5 years 0.75854 0.18123 17.5189 <.0001 2.135 1.497 3.046
>5 years 0.13762 0.13059 1.1106 0.2920 1.148 0.888 1.482
Pack years
<20 0.15632 0.34319 0.2075 0.6487 1.169 0.597 2.291
20-39 0.50078 0.21593 5.3785 0.0204 1.650 1.081 2.519
40+ 0.81008 0.16219 24.9470 <.0001 2.248 1.636 3.089

Test Total Event Censored % Censored
3751 383 3368 89.79
Chi-Square DF P value
Likelihood Ratio 324.1494 11 <0.0001
Hosmer Lemeshow 11.4700 9 0.2448
Modified HL 11.0293 9 0.2737
Estimate SE 95% CI
C statistic 0.7601 0.0130 0.7346, 0.7856

Note: The reference categories for sex, diabetes and the smoking variable are female, no diabetes and never smoker respectively.