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Published in final edited form as: Heart Lung. 2011 Mar 30;40(5):393–404. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2011.02.002

TABLE VIII.

Adjusted hazard ratios for the prediction of event-free survival from anxiety and medication adherence controlling for age, gender, medication use, left ventricular ejection fraction, and New York Heart Association classification

	Hazard Ratio	95% Confidence Interval	P Value
Age	1.007	.982–1.032	.60
Gender	.902	.487–1.670	.74
Prescribed angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor	.538	.293–.988	.05
Prescribed beta-adrenergic blocker	.442	.181–1.078	.07
Left ventricular ejection fraction	.988	.966–1.010	.29
New York Heart Association classification	1.141	.632–2.050	.66
Second anxiety quartile^*	.884	.336–2.321	.80
Third anxiety quartile^*	.952	.413–2.194	.91
Fourth anxiety quartile^*	1.682	.795–3.560	.17
Medication adherence	1.345	1.060–1.708	.02

Compared to lowest quartile of anxiety

Omnibus test of model coefficients χ² = 29.73, P = .001