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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2016 Dec 28;23(3):475–482. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2016.12.623

Table 4. Predictors of individual cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) and CVRF cluster in multivariate analysis.

Elevated blood pressure Elevated glucose Low HDL CVRF cluster*
HR (95% CI) P HR (95% CI) p HR (95% CI) p HR (95% CI) p
Age at TBI 1.0 (0.9, 1.2) 0.64 0.8 (0.8, 0.9) <0.001 1.1 (0.98,1.3) 0.09 0.9 (0.8, 1.0) 0.16
Sex
 Male
 Female
Race
 White, non-Hispanic
 Other
Cranial RT 0.002
 No Reference
 Yes 4.0 (1.7, 9.6)
Anthracycline dose (mg/m2) 0.04
 ≤ 300 mg/m2 Reference
 >300 mg/m2 2.0 (1.04, 3.9)
Glucocorticoids
 No
 Yes
HCT type
 T-cell depleted
 Unmodified
aGVHD grade 0.007 0.008
 Grade 0-1 Reference Reference
 Grade 2-4 4.3 (1.5,12.3) 4.2 (1.5, 12.2)
GH deficiency** 0.02 0.002
 No Reference Reference
 Yes 3.9 (1.3,12.3) 8.6 (2.1, 34.4)

Note: All analyses are stratified by treatment year ≤ 2000 vs > 2000 with time zero defined as age at TBI + 1 year; multivariate models constructed via forward selection with age at TBI in the initial model and considering all univariate covariates with p<0.1 as candidate predictors; full results for each model are shown. No significant predictors at 0.05 level for obesity or hypertriglyceridemia, thus omitted from the table above

*

CVRF cluster defined as having 3 or more of the following CVRF: obesity, elevated glucose, elevated blood pressure, low HDL, high triglycerides

**

Time dependent covariate;

Abbreviations: TBI, indicates total body irradiation; HCT, hematopoietic cell transplantation; GVHD, graft-versus-host disease; GH, growth hormone; HDL, high density lipoprotein