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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2016 Mar 22;248:224–229. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2016.03.029

Table 3.

Hazard ratio and 95% confidence intervals for non-fatal cardiovascular disease events across tertiles of fetuin-A, stratified by HbA1c

Tertiles (g/L) Continuous
per SD*
0.20 – 0.43 >0.43 – 0.51 >0.51 – 0.94
HbA1c <5.7%
 Cases 35 22 23 80
 Multivariable HR** (95% CI) 1.0 (ref) 0.65 (0.36, 1.16) 0.62 (0.33, 1.18) 0.81 (0.60, 1.09)
HbA1c 5.7 – 6.4%
 Cases 12 11 16 39
 Multivariable HR (95% CI) 1.0 (ref) 1.50 (0.58, 3.88) 1.65 (0.71, 3.87) 1.28 (0.93, 1.75)
HbA1c ≥6.5%
 Cases 7 6 10 23
 Multivariable HR (95% CI) 1.0 (ref) 1.32 (0.23, 7.47) 1.21 (0.32, 4.58) 1.18 (0.73, 1.91)
*

SD = 0.10 g/L

**

Adjusted for age, sex, racial/ethnic group, field center, smoking status, alcohol intake, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations, family history of cardiovascular disease, education, income, and physical activity.