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Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2013 Jan 29;111(7):962–967. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.12.017

Table 3.

Hazard ratio for clinical events by tertiles of telomere length (in kilo-bases) and event type^*

	Tertiles of telomere length

	Longest (Reference) (n = 643)	Middle (n = 644)	Shortest (n = 644)
Telomere length (kilo-bases)	5.5 to 8.2	5.0 to < 5.5	4.1 to <5.0
CHD event or all-cause mortality
Number of events	70	96	122
Hazard ratio (95% CI)	1.00 (Reference)	1.30 (0.94–1.80)	1.09 (0.81–1.48)
All-cause mortality only
Number of events	46	52	83
Hazard ratio (95% CI)	1.00 (Reference)	1.11 (0.73–1.69)	1.12 (0.77–1.62)
Non-fatal CHD events only
Number of events	34	58	61
Hazard ratio (95% CI)	1.00 (Reference)	1.56 (1.00–2.41)	1.17 (0.76–1.80)
Fatal CHD events only
Number of events	4	8	11
Hazard ratio (95% CI)	1.00 (Reference)	2.05 (0.61–6.92)	1.79 (0.56–5.72)

Hazard ratios are adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, Framingham risk score, use of lipid-lowering medications, physical activity, ln CRP, ln IL6, and sICAM-1.