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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 5. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CI) for Incident AF by ECG-LVH criteria.

ECG measure HR (95% CI)

Model 1* P-value Model 2 P-value Model 3 P-Value

Voltage-only criteria
 Sokolow-Lyon voltage 1.97 (1.36, 2.80) <0.001 1.57 (1.06, 2.32) 0.02 1.37 (0.92, 2.07) 0.12
 Cornell voltage 1.49 (0.81, 2.73) 0.19 1.36 (0.72, 2.58) 0.33 - -
 Framingham adjusted Cornell voltage 1.48 (0.80, 2.72) 0.20 1.36 (0.76, 2.58) 0.33 - -
 Minnesota code 3.1 1.65 (1.01, 2.69) 0.04 1.26 (0.76, 2.08) 0.35 - -
 Lewis index 1.02 (0.68, 1.54) 0.89 0.72 (0.47, 1.11) 0.14 - -
 Gubner and Ungerleider 1.45 (0.89, 2.36) 0.12 1.02 (0.62, 1.68) 0.91 - -
Voltage-duration product
 Sokolow-Lyon voltage product 2.56 (1.56, 4.21) <0.001 2.24 (1.33, 3.76) 0.002 1.83 (1.06, 3.14) 0.02
 Cornell voltage product 1.97(1.28, 3.04) 0.002 1.69 (0.94, 2.31) 0.09 - -
Composite criteria
 Romhilt-Estes score ≥ 4 2.45 (1.08, 5.53) 0.03 1.48 (0.64, 3.39) 0.94 - -
 Perugia score 2.07 (1.28, 3.32) 0.003 1.71 (1.09, 2.81) 0.03 1.35(0.7 9, 2.28) 0.26

 Perugia 2 score 1.83 (1.10, 3.06) 0.020 1.38 (0.80, 2.38) 0.25 - -
*

Unadjusted

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

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