Table 1.
Number and rates of incident event by sex and quartiles of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I
| Endpoint | Quartile 1 | Quartile 2 | Quartile 3 | Quartile 4 | P-value** | |||||||||
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| n | % | Rate* | n | % | Rate* | n | % | Rate* | n | % | Rate* | |||
| Males | All-cause death | 63 | (22.3) | 2557 | 190 | (37.3) | 4465 | 316 | (43.8) | 5529 | 578 | (64.1) | 9625 | <0.001 |
| Incident CVD | 39 | (18.8) | 2325 | 93 | (25.7) | 3483 | 130 | (28.3) | 4116 | 163 | (37.2) | 6312 | <0.001 | |
| Incident CHD | 27 | (13) | 1581 | 73 | (20.2) | 2684 | 107 | (23.3) | 3262 | 125 | (28.5) | 4625 | <0.001 | |
| Females | All-cause death | 236 | (20.6) | 2302 | 328 | (36.1) | 4302 | 318 | (45.4) | 5698 | 314 | (60.6) | 8916 | <0.001 |
| Incident CVD | 129 | (13.1) | 1549 | 139 | (19) | 2416 | 157 | (29.5) | 4090 | 107 | (31.6) | 4921 | <0.001 | |
| Incident CHD | 92 | (9.3) | 1089 | 95 | (13) | 1615 | 113 | (21.2) | 2853 | 84 | (24.8) | 3780 | <0.001 | |
Values are number (percent). CVD = Cardiovascular disease; CHD = Coronary heart disease
Values for high-sensitive cardiac troponin I. Quartile 1: 1.2 – 4.4 ng/L; Quartile 2: 4.5 – 6.3 ng/L; Quartile 3: 6.4 – 10.5; Quartile 4: 10.6–1691 ng/L.
*
Rate per 100.000 person years
**
P-value for trend from log rank test