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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med. 2015 Jul 11;128(11):1252.e1–1252.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.06.030

Table 3.

Adverse Outcomes Over One Year: Statin initiators compared to statin non-initiators, overall and by level of kidney function. Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals were estimated from Cox proportional hazards regression

Statin Initators (n=5,597;
4,504 without diabetes
at baseline)
Statin Non-initiators
(n=5,583; 4,510 without
diabetes at baseline)
PS Matched and Adjusted Hazard Ratio
(95% CI)


Events Events per
100 person
years
Events Events per
100 person
years
Diabetes* 447 11.52 400 10.71 0.97 (0.84, 1.12)
P-value for interaction of statin
initiation by level of kidney
function
0.58
Myopathy 54 1.34 66 1.04 0.82 (0.57, 1.20)
P-value for interaction of statin
initiation by level of kidney
function
0.98
a

among patients without diabetes at baseline