Table 2.

Risk of Incident HF, by LVH and initial biomarker level

		Hazard Ratios (95% CI)
LVH by echo	Tertile of NT-proBNP	Unadjusted	Risk-factor adjusted*
None	1	1.0	1.0
	2	1.22 (0.96, 1.50)	1.22 (0.97, 1.52)
	3	2.03 (1.64, 2.50)	1.94 (1.56, 2.41)
Yes	1	1.87 (1.20, 2.91)	1.71 (1.10, 2.67)
	2	2.52 (1.69, 3.76)	2.07 (1.38, 3.10)
	3	4.42 (3.28, 5.94)	3.78 (2.78, 5.15)
LVH by echo	Tertile of hs cTnT	Unadjusted	Risk-factor adjusted*
None	1	1.0	1.0
	2	1.69 (1.36, 210)	1.36 (1.09, 1.69)
	3	2.75 (2.23, 3.38)	2.07 (1.67, 2.56)
Yes	1	2.62 (1.80, 3.81)	2.31 (1.58, 3.36)
	2	2.20 (1.41, 3.44)	1.70 (1.08, 2.66)
	3	5.88 (4.37, 7.90)	3.86 (2.84, 5.26)

^*Risk-Factor Adjusted: Age, race, gender, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, body mass index, eGFR<60 cc/min/1.73m², LVEF<45%, and relative wall thickness (RWT).

Interaction of LVH with: NTproBNP: p=0.5; hs cTnT: p=0.6