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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2015 Jan 14;239(1):137–142. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.01.002

Table 4.

The mortality risk for higher LDL-C after the exclusion of mortality in the first year.

Cut-off HR(95%CI) (adjusted with final model)
Men Women Total
LDL-C≥3.37mmol/L(130mg/dL) 0.41(0.10–1.77) 0.59(0.32–1.07) 0.59(0.34–1.02)
LDL-C≥3.12mmol/L (120mg/dL ) 0.48(0.15–1.58) 0.61(0.39–0.95)* 0.64(0.43–0.97)*
LDL-C≥2.85mmol/L (110mg/dL) 0.71(0.33–1.51) 0.63(0.44–0.91)* 0.69(0.50–0.95)*
Each 1mmol/L increase in LDL-C 0.73(0.51–1.03)) 0.82(0.69–0.98)* 0.83(0.71–0.96)*

Abbreviations: LDL-C=low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

*

P<0.05.

Adjusted for sex, age, marital status, current smoking, current alcohol drinking, tea drinking, central obesity, cognitive impairment, ADL restriction, blindness, chronic kidney disease, anemia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus and abnormal HDL-C level