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Published in final edited form as: Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2012 Oct 16;12(4):377–384. doi: 10.1177/1474515112459601

Table 3.

Independent predictors of event-free survival in patients with heart failure, N = 212.

Characteristic	Adjusted hazard ratio	95% CI	P
Age (years)	1.00	0.97–1.03	0.881
Gender
Male
Female	0.50	0.09–1.13	0.093
Body mass index (kg/m²)	0.97	0.92 1.01	0.148
NYHA functional class
I/II
III	1.50	0.75–3.00	0.254
IV	1.41	0.54–3.66	0.485
Heart failure etiology
Non-ischemic heart disease
Ischemic heart disease	1.33	0.68–2.59	0.410
Left ventricular ejection fraction (%)		0.98–1.03	0.596
Total comorbidity score	1.12	0.94–1.33	0.198
Lycopene intake
> 2471 μg/day
≤ 2471 μg/day	2.79	1.40–5.55	0.003

NYHA: New York Heart Association.