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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 17.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2011 May 2;123(19):2101–2110. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.979740

Table 4.

Comparison of NRI and IDI for GDF-15, NT-proBNP and CRP

IDI p NRI* p Categoryless NRI p
All-Cause Death
      GDF-15 0.016 0.003 0.056 0.009 0.296 <0.0001
      NT-proBNP 0.012 0.003 0.041 0.03 0.220 <0.0001
      CRP 0.002 0.12 0.000 0.99 0.105 0.07
CVD Death
      GDF-15 0.005 0.34 0.001 0.96 0.166 0.05
      NT-proBNP 0.024 0.01 0.039 0.10 0.323 <0.0001
      CRP 0.005 0.08 −0.016 0.24 0.056 0.53
Non-CVD Death
      GDF-15 0.017 0.002 0.036 0.15 0.333 <0.0001
      NT-proBNP 0.004 0.13 0.023 0.19 0.238 0.0006
      CRP 0.001 0.48 −0.009 0.50 0.136 0.05
*

Cut-points for low/high risk were <10%/>30% for all-cause death, and by tertiles of risk for CVD death (<2%/>9%) and non-CVD death (<5%/>16%).

Comparisons are to a baseline model adjusted for: age, sex, diabetes, hypertension, current smoking, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL, CrCl and BMI.

CVD = cardiovascular disease; IDI = integrated discrimination improvement; NRI = net reclassification improvement.