Table 2.

 Number of events and incidence rates for death and sudden cardiac death in patients with and without implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in latency 180 day* and latency 365 day* analyses

Group	Death				Sudden cardiac death
	Event/IR†	HR (95% CI)			Event/IR†	HR (95% CI)
		Crude	Adjusted‡			Crude	Adjusted
Latency 180 day
Primary cohort
ICD (n=5258)	1307/159	0.69 (0.65 to 0.74)	0.91 (0.82 to 1.00)		330/40	0.71 (0.62 to 0.82)	0.95 (0.78 to 1.17)
No ICD (n=17 853)	5299/241	Reference	Reference		1326/60	Reference	Reference
Secondary cohort
ICD (n=412)	125/201	0.90 (0.71 to 1.14)	1.01 (0.79 to 1.29)		40/64	1.26 (0.82 to 1.93)	1.20 (0.71 to 2.00)
No ICD (n=17 853)	5299/241	Reference	Reference		1326/60	Reference	Reference
Latency 365 day
Primary cohort
ICD (n=5258)	925/155	0.73 (0.68 to 0.79)	0.94 (0.83 to 1.06)		234/39	0.75 (0.65 to 0.87)	0.96 (0.76 to 1.21)
No ICD (n=17 853)	3524/220	Reference	Reference		880/55	Reference	Reference
Secondary cohort
ICD (n=412)	90/203	0.95 (0.72 to 1.27)	1.02 (0.72 to 1.43)		28/63	1.13 (0.67 to 1.90)	0.94 (0.49 to 1.80)
No ICD (n=17 853)	3524/220	Reference	Reference		880/55	Reference	Reference