Table 3. Results of multivariate Cox proportional-hazards model regarding follow-up events.

Characteristics	All-cause Mortality		Cardiac Mortality
	HR (95% CI)	p	HR (95% CI)	p
Fibrinogen*	1.33 (1.04-1.70)	0.025	1.12 (0.82-1.53)	0.466
Age†	1.63 (1.30-2.04)	<0.001	1.40 (1.06-1.83)	0.017
Men	1.34 (0.84-2.14)	0.220	1.65 (0.90-2.99)	0.103
Heart rate	1.00 (0.99-1.00)	0.882	1.00 (0.99-1.01)	0.958
Systolic blood pressure	1.00 (0.98-1.01)	0.602	0.99 (0.98-1.01)	0.368
Serum creatine‡	1.06 (0.96-1.17)	0.257	1.01 (0.90-1.14)	0.880

^*grouped by the tertiles; † for 10-year increase; ‡ for each 20 μmol/L increase.

Risk factors adjustment included age, sex, medical history (pre-hypertension and pre-diabetes mellitus), admission examination (systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate), heart function (Killip level), admission lab test (blood glucose, total cholesterol, and serum creatinine), severity of CAD (left main artery and three vessel diseases), discharge medication (aspirin, clopidogrel, statin, ACE inhibitors or ARBs and beta-receptor blockers)

Abbreviations: HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; CAD, coronary artery disease; ACE, angiotensin-converting enzyme; ARBs, angiotensin-receptor blockers.