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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2012 Nov 10;56(2):275–283. doi: 10.1007/s00125-012-2772-1

Table 2.

Hazard ratios and 95% CIs for 10 year risk of cardiovascular events in 782 adults from the CHS who had diabetes

Final model Basic model +Biomarkers +Subclinical measures

Age (years) 1.05 (1.03, 1.08) 1.06 (1.03, 1.08) 1.03 (1.01, 1.06)
Former smoker 1.29 (0.98, 1.70) 1.25 (0.95, 1.64) 1.10 (0.83, 1.46)
Current smoker 1.64 (1.08, 2.50) 1.52 (0.99, 2.32) 1.19 (0.77, 1.84)
Systolic BP per 10 mmHg up to 160 1.15 (1.07, 1.24) 1.15 (1.07, 1.24) 1.11 (1.03, 1.20)
Total cholesterol per mmol/l 1.17 (1.05, 1.31) 1.18 (1.05, 1.33) 1.16 (1.03, 1.31)
HDL-cholesterol per mmol/l 0.79 (0.53, 1.18) 0.82 (0.54, 1.23) 0.86 (0.56, 1.30)
Creatinine >110.5 μmol/l 1.43 (1.05, 1.96) 1.36 (1.00, 1.86) 1.31 (0.96, 1.78)
Oral hypoglycaemic agent or insulin use 1.71 (1.33, 2.19) 1.73 (1.35, 2.22) 1.57 (1.21, 2.03)
CRP per 10 nmol/l up to 190 nmol/l 1.03 (1.01, 1.06) 1.03 (1.00, 1.05)
ABI <1 1.52 (1.16, 1.99)
ECG left ventricular hypertrophy 1.78 (1.08, 2.95)
Internal carotid IMT per mm up to 3 1.66 (1.35, 2.04)
Summary measures
 Akaike’s information criterion 2934 2930 2898
 Bayes’ information criterion 2971 2972 2954
 Harrell’s C statistic 0.64 0.64 0.68
 Hosmer–Lemeshow p value 0.25 0.87 0.65

CRP, C-reactive protein