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. 2015 Jun 25;36(37):2500–2507. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv292

Table 4.

Mortality (intention-to-treat)

Outcome Events
Incidencea
Log rank
95% CI
Without DF test (N = 537) With DF test (N = 540) Without DF test With DF test P-value HR Lower Upper
All-cause mortality 44 (8.2%) 52 (9.6%) 0.044 0.053 0.377 0.835 0.559 1.248
Non-cardiac mortality 24 (4.5%) 23 (4.3%) 0.024 0.023 0.907 1.035 0.584 1.833
Unknown (primary organ cause) 6 (1.1%) 10 (1.9%) 0.006 0.01 0.306 0.593 0.216 1.632
Cardiac mortality 14 (2.6%) 19 (3.5%) 0.014 0.019 0.350 0.721 0.361 1.438
Arrhythmic mortality 1 (0.2%) 5 (0.9%) 0.001 0.005 0.100 0.198 0.023 1.694
Non-arrhythmic mortality 13 (2.4%) 13 (2.4%) 0.013 0.013 0.948 0.975 0.452 2.103
Unknown cardiac mortality 0 (0.0%) 1 (0.2%) 0 0.001

DF, defibrillation; HR, hazard ratio; ITT, intention to treat.

aIncidence referring to person-years without DF test (1001.5) and with DF test (985.9).