Table 2. Hazard ratios for coronary heart disease and stroke in men in fourths of the score of each ability test subscale.
| Verbal | Visuospatial | Arithmetic | ||||
| Number of cases/subjects | Hazard ratio (95% CI) | Number of cases/subjects | Hazard ratio (95% CI) | Number of cases/subjects | Hazard ratio (95% CI) | |
| Coronary heart disease | ||||||
| Lowest | 93/656 | 2.2 (1.6 to 3.2) | 86/674 | 1.9 (1.3 to 2.7) | 93/697 | 1.9 (1.3 to 2.8) |
| 2 | 84/724 | 1.7 (1.2 to 2.5) | 75/631 | 1.8 (1.2 to 2.6) | 71/676 | 1.5 (1.0 to 2.2) |
| 3 | 56/664 | 1.3 (0.9 to 1.9) | 77/849 | 1.3 (0.9 to 2.0) | 68/727 | 1.4 (1.0 to 2.0) |
| Highest | 48/741 | 1.0 (Referent) | 43/632 | 1.0 (Referent) | 46/669 | 1.0 (Referent) |
| Per one unit lower z score | 1.30 (1.16 to 1.46) | 1.27 (1.13 to 1.42) | 1.21 (1.08 to 1.36) | |||
| Stroke | ||||||
| Lowest | 30/656 | 1.0 (0.6 to 1.6) | 37/674 | 1.8 (1.0 to 3.1) | 36/697 | 1.0 (0.6 to 1.7) |
| 2 | 32/724 | 1.0 (0.6 to 1.6) | 24/631 | 1.2 (0.7 to 2.2) | 34/676 | 1.0 (0.6 to 1.6) |
| 3 | 34/664 | 1.1 (0.7 to 1.8) | 50/849 | 1.9 (1.1 to 3.2) | 25/727 | 0.7 (0.4 to 1.2) |
| Highest | 34/741 | 1.0 (Referent) | 20/632 | 1.0 (Referent) | 34/669 | 1.0 (Referent) |
| Per one unit lower z score | 1.01 (0.85 to 1.20) | 1.23 (1.04 to 1.46) | 1.07 (0.90 to 1.27) | |||
Analyses are stratified for year of birth and adjusted for age and year at testing.