Table 3.

Associations of presence of medium artery calcification with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality

	CVD mortality (n cases=37)		All-cause mortality (n cases=115)
Breast artery calcium (present/absent)^a
Model	HR (95% CI)	p	HR (95% CI)	p
Model 1^a	12.30 (2.84–53.37)	0.001	4.67 (1.57–13.88)	0.006
Model 2^a	29.59 (1.86–471.38)	0.017	7.33 (2.03–26.45)	0.002
Model 3^a	19.05 (0.76–480.64)	0.074	5.67 (1.50–21.41)	0.011
	CVD mortality (n cases = 90)		All-cause mortality (n cases = 298)
Splenic artery calcium (present/absent)
Model	HR (95% CI)	p	HR (95% CI)	p
Model 1	1.69 (0.83–3.42)	0.146	1.65 (0.97–2.78)	0.063
Model 2	1.46 (0.71–2.97)	0.302	1.51 (0.89–2.57)	0.129
Model 3	1.37 (0.68–2.79)	0.380	1.43 (0.84–2.42)	0.191
Internal iliac artery calcium (present/absent)
Model	HR (95% CI)	p	HR (95% CI)	p
Model 1	1.24 (0.60–2.58)	0.563	1.37 (0.86–2.17)	0.185
Model 2	0.91 (0.41–2.04)	0.826	1.15 (0.70–1.87)	0.586
Model 3	0.75 (0.31–1.79)	0.514	0.97 (0.56–1.68)	0.901
External iliac artery calcium (present/absent)
Model	HR (95% CI)	p	HR (95% CI)	p
Model 1	2.15 (1.06–4.38)	0.034	1.86 (1.08–3.20)	0.025
Model 2	1.47 (0.63–3.42)	0.375	1.34 (0.73–2.47)	0.348
Model 3	1.33 (0.56–3.12)	0.517	1.22 (0.66–2.27)	0.526

Model 1: adjusted for age and sex. Model 2: adjusted for sex, age, smoking status, dyslipidemia, BMI, diabetes and hypertension. Model 3: additionally adjusted a 0–5 score of the number of calcified vascular beds out of the carotids, coronaries, abdominal and thoracic aorta and common iliac arteries.

HR, hazard ratio; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.

Analysis in women only. Models 1 to 3 adjusted as described above except for sex.