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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Lung Circ. 2018 Mar 21;28(4):615–622. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.03.007

Table 4.

Hazard Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals for Incident Atrial Fibrillation According to Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Mutation Presence, Stratified by Race (3052 African Americans and 9634 whites), ARIC, 1987–2013.

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase risk alleles
African American GG GA AA p for trend
Number at risk 2386 621 45
Person-years 49,617 13,006 978
Atrial fibrillation, cases 271 74 9
Model 1 1 1.04 (0.80–1.35) 1.70 (0.88–3.31) 0.311
Model 2 1 1.07 (0.82–1.38) 1.72 (0.88–3.37) 0.240

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase risk alleles
White GG GA AA p for trend

Number at risk 4314 4212 1108
Person-years 92,172 89,302 23,304
Atrial fibrillation, cases 783 756 186
 Model 1 1 1.00 (0.90–1.10) 0.99 (0.85–1.11) 0.621
 Model 2 1 1.02 (0.92–1.13) 0.93 (0.79–1.09) 0.612

Model 1: Crude model.

Model 2: Adjusted for age, sex and principal components of ancestry.