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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Aug 13;7(9):870–878. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.05.008

Table 5.

Crude event rates, and age-and sex-adjusted hazard ratios for incident CVD/CHD death (after cycle 6) according to the pattern of change in left ventricular geometry (from cycle 5 to 6).

Change in LV geometry
from exam 5 to exam 6		 Events after exam 6
/ individuals at risk		 Risk Age- and sex-adjusted
HR (95% CI)		 P-value
Reference 44/1058 4.2% 1
Improved 31/439 7.1% 1.39 (0.88, 2.21) 0.16
Worsened 43/479 9.0% 1.59 (1.04, 2.43) 0.03
High risk (Remained EH/CH*) 22/129 17.1% 3.42 (2.04, 5.74) <0.0001
*

Individuals with eccentric hypertrophy (EH) at exam 5 and exam 6; or with concentric hypertrophy (CH) at exam 5 and exam 6. HR, hazard ratio, CVD denotes cardiovascular disease; CHD coronary heart disease