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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 4.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2012 Nov 2;126(23):2713–2719. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.112201

Table 3.

Association of a 10 percent decrement in left ventricular ejection fraction at baseline and incident cardiovascular events, congestive heart failure and all-cause mortality. MESA

Outcome Unadjusted Adjusted*
# of
Events		 Hazard Ratio(95%CI) P value Hazard Ratio(95%CI) P value
Congestive Heart
Failure 		112 2.17(1.82-2.63) <0.0001 2.13(1.73-2.51) <0.0001
Cardiovascular Event 321 1.22(1.05 -1.41) 0.007 1.12(0.97-1.30) 0.104
All Cause mortality 278 1.22(1.05 -1.41) 0.009 1.18(1.01 -1.37) 0.038
*

Adjusted model adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, diabetes mellitus, BMI, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL, triglycerides, cigarette smoking status, blood pressure medication use (beta blocker use, ACE inhibitor use) and statin use.

**

For congestive heart failure and all cause mortality, interim myocardial infarction was adjusted for in the adjusted model.