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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 26.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Heart Fail. 2012 Aug 10;5(5):571–578. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.970061

Table 2.

Association Between Sex and Time to First Outcomes

Outcome No. of Events
Event Rate Per 100 Patient-Years
Univariable Analysis
Multivariable Analysis*
All Patients Women Men Women Men HR (95% CI), Women vs Men P Value HR (95% CI), Women vs Men P Value
All-cause death 881 447 434 4.32 6.72 0.64 (0.56–0.73) <0.001 0.70 (0.59–0.83) <0.001
All-cause hospitalization or death 2430 1382 1049 19.42 25.05 0.79 (0.73–0.86) <0.001 0.80 (0.72–0.89) <0.001
Cardiovascular hospitalization or death 1754 970 784 11.76 15.97 0.75 (0.68–0.83) <0.001 0.81 (0.72–0.92) 0.001
Noncardiovascular hospitalization or death 1483 846 638 9.89 12.40 0.81 (0.72–0.89) <0.001 0.78 (0.69–0.90) <0.001
Heart failure hospitalization or death 716 420 296 4.43 5.02 0.89 (0.77–1.04) 0.140 0.94 (0.77–1.14) 0.51
First all-cause hospitalization 2278 1314 964 18.43 23.14 0.82 (0.75–0.88) <0.001 0.77 (0.66–0.89) <0.001

HR indicates hazards ratio; HF, heart failure; PCI/CABG, percutaneous coronary intervention/coronary artery bypass surgery; TIA, transient ischemic attack; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NT-pro-BNP, N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide.

*

Adjusted for age, obesity, New York Heart Association status, HF cause, HF hospitalization within 6 mo, comorbidities/risk factors (history of hypertension, stable angina, myocardial infarction, PCI/CABG, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, stroke/TIA, COPD/asthma, valve disease, smoking), ejection fraction capped at 60%, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, hemoglobin, ln-NT-pro-BNP, natural log-neutrophil count, glomerular filtration rate capped at 90 mL/min per 1.73 m2, and all medications.

Death from any cause or hospitalization for protocol-specified cardiovascular cause (HF, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, or stroke).