Table 2.

Impact of balloon inflations on long-term clinical outcomes

	Unadjusted			Adjusted
	Hazard ratio	95 % CI	p	Hazard ratioa	95 % CI	p
Mortality	1.21	0.69, 2.11	0.50	0.86	0.44, 1.67	0.65
MACCE	1.22	0.83, 1.79	0.31	0.87	0.57, 1.33	0.52

CI confidence interval, MACCE major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events

^aThe multivariable Cox-regression model included age, gender, diabetes, number of diseased vessels, symptom-to-balloon time, Rentrop collateral grade, proximal occlusion of either left anterior descending (LAD) or right coronary artery (RCA) and number of balloon inflations