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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Heart Fail. 2016 Dec 14;19(3):340–347. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.701

Table 2.

Crude incident rates of heart failure by baseline ferritin serum level (ARIC study)

Heart failure in the whole population sample
Heart failure in non-anemic participants
Group Participants Number of events Rates of events per 1000 person-years Participants Number of events Rates of events per 1000 person-years
All=1063 144 All=925 138
Normal range (30–200 ng/mL in women and 30–300 ng/mL in men) 663 84 5.9 (4.8–7.4) 594 77 6.1 (4.9–7.6)
Low ferritin (<30 ng/mL) 153 25 7.7 (5.2–11.4) 111 18 7.5 (4.7–12.0)
High ferritin (>200 ng/mL in women and >300 ng/mL in men) 247 35 6.9 (4.9–9.6) 220 32 7.1 (5.0–10.0)