Table 2.

Number of individuals free of or with coronary heart disease (CHD) at baseline who died or incurred cardiopulmonary events at follow-up, stratified to quartiles of eGFR (by CKD-EPI)

	Total “healthy” sample			CHD at baseline
	Total subjects	p = 0.37 Deaths	Nonfatal Events	Total subjects	p = 0.036 Deaths	Nonfatal Events
Quartile 1	117	1	4	81	3	14
Quartile 2	119	4	4	75		16
Quartile 3	116	6	3	83	1	19
Quartile 4	117	5	7	81	5	8
Grand total	469	16¶	18*	320	9¶	57‡

*As nonfatal events heart failure occurred in 13, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in 5 (all in quartiles 3 & 4) unique subjects

‡ Nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) in 23, heart failure in 24, COPD in 8, stroke in 2 subjects.

¶ Death was due to MI in 6, heart failure in 5 patients, stroke and COPD in 2 patients each, lung cancer in 4, breast cancer in 2 patients, cardiomyopathy and leg amputation in 1 patient each. Cause remained obscure in 2 instances.