Table 2. Incidence of death and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) at 3 months in patients with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), stratified according to quartiles of red blood cell distribution width (RDW).
| Outcome | RDW (%) | P | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <12.8 | 12.9–13.3 | 13.4–14.1 | >14.1 | ||
| Death, n (%) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (1.9) | 5 (2.3) | 20 (8.2) | <0.001 |
| MACE, n (%) | 17 (8.3) | 40 (12.6) | 33 (15.6) | 74 (30.3) | <0.001 |