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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 16.
Published in final edited form as: Thorax. 2010 Oct;65(10):870–877. doi: 10.1136/thx.2010.136317

Table 4.

Unadjusted and adjusted hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) for mortality over 1 year for subjects with diabetes compared to those without using Cox proportional hazards model

Variables GenIMS study Health ABC study
Pneumonia hospitalization Pneumonia hospitalization Hospitalization for
non-infectious illness
Interaction p
value*

HR with 95% CI p value HR with 95% CI p value HR with 95% CI p value
Unadjusted 1.41 (1.12–1.76) 0.002 1.87 (0.76–4.6) 0.16 1.16 (0.8–1.6) 0.37 0.04
Adjusted for age, race,
sex
1.32 (1.05–1.66) 0.01 1.82 (0.72–4.62) 0.2 1.08 (0.76–1.52) 0.65 0.04
Adjusted for age, race,
sex, cardiovascular and
kidney disease
1.3 (1.03–1.65) 0.02 1.8 (0.66–4.92) 0.25 1.06 (0.75–1.51) 0.7 0.09
*

p value for interaction between diabetes and the reason for initial hospitalization (pneumonia and non-infectious illness) on mortality over 1 year