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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2012 Feb 28;109(10):1454–1458. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.01.357

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Hazard ratios for hard cardiovascular disease (CVD) events for Q1 (lowest quartile) MCF and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and Q4 (highest quartile) left ventricular mass (LVM) versus referent quartiles. LVM/HT, LVM/HT2.7 and LVM/BSA are LVM indexed respectively to height, height2.7 and body surface area. MCFa and MCFb show hazard ratios for MCF adjusted for LVM and LVM/LVEDV, respectively. Q1 MCF and MCFa and Q4 indexed LVM were predictive of future hard CVD events (shaded bars), while Q1 EF and MCFb and Q4 unindexed LVM were not predictive (open bars) Intermediate quartiles were not predictive of hard CVD events and are not shown. MCF = myocardial contraction fraction, EDV = end-diastolic volume.