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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2016 Aug 26;134(12):872–882. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.021823

Table 3.

Multivariate Cox Model Analyses for Risk of Cardiac Events: First Aborted Cardiac Arrest [ACA] or LQT3 related Sudden Cardiac Death [SCD].

Endpoint = ACA/SCD (56 ACA/SCD: 34 SCD + 22 ACA)
Hazard 95% Conf Int
Parameter p-value Ratio LCL UCL
Syncope 0.023 2.03 1.10 3.72
β-blockers among females* 0.032 0.20 0.05 0.87
β-blockers among males* 0.308 0.51 0.14 1.88
E1784K mutation 0.001 0.09 0.02 0.37
D1790G mutation 0.049 0.30 0.09 0.99
QTc per 10 ms (up to 500 ms) <0.001 1.33 1.19 1.48
Year of birth (after 1955) <0.001 1.06 1.03 1.09
*Test for β-blockers x sex interaction:
β-blockers for males vs females 0.353