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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Mar 19;63(19):2007–2013. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.01.066

Table 4. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CI) for Incident AF by LV mass.

Measure HR (95% CI)

Model 1* Unadjusted P-value Model 2 Multivariable-adjusted* P-value
CMR-derived
 LV mass 1.50 (1.34, 1.687) <0.001 1.45 (1.23, 1.70) <0.001
 LV mass (intervals)
  ≤50th percentile 1 (ref.) 1 (ref.)
  50th - 90th percentile 1.33 (0.84, 2.10) 0.21 1.23 (0.76, 2.00) 0.39
  90th - 95th percentile 1.55 (0.99, 2.43) 0.05 1.29 (0.76, 2.20) 0.33
  >95th percentile 2.77 (1.84, 4.16) <0.001 2.04 (1.15, 3.62) 0.015
ECG-derived
 LV mass 1.33 (1.17, 1.52) <0.001 1.01 (0.75, 1.36) 0.11
 LV mass (intervals)
  ≤50th percentile 1 (ref.) 1 (ref.)
  50th - 90th percentile 1.87 (1.18, 2.95) 0.007 1.39 (0.84, 2.31) 0.19
  90th - 95th percentile 1.93 (1.22, 3.05) 0.005 0.99 (0.54, 1.83) 0.99
  >95th percentile 2.67 (1.73, 4.12) <0.001 1.31 (0.61, 2.81) 0.47
*

Adjusted for cardiovascular risk factors (age, sex, ethnicity, weight, height, systolic BP, diabetes, total and HDL cholesterol, smoking, and hypertension/lipid/arrhythmia/digitalis medication

Standardized (centered at 0 and scaled to SD units)

ECG-LV mass derived from Rautaharju models