Table 3.

Relative declines in cardiovascular mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by decade of incidence

	1990–99 compared to 1980–89		2000–07 compared to 1990–99
	hazard ratio (95% confidence interval)	p-value	hazard ratio (95% confidence interval)	p-value
Age and sex adjusted mortality
- CV mortality	0.42 (0.23–0.75)	0.003	0.42 (0.18–0.95)	0.039
- CHD mortality	0.51 (0.24–1.10)	0.086	0.17 (0.04–0.75)	0.019
- Non-CHD mortality	0.40 (0.08–2.10)	0.28	0.64 (0.18–2.23)	0.48
Age, sex and CV risk factor adjusted mortality
- CV mortality	0.33 (0.17–0.62)	<0.001	0.42 (0.18–0.99)	0.048
- CHD mortality	0.44 (0.19–1.03)	0.058	0.14 (0.03–0.67)	0.013
- Non-CHD mortality	0.51 (0.09–2.81)	0.44	0.50 (0.13–1.97)	0.32

CV=cardiovascular; CHD=coronary heart disease