Table 4. All-cause and cardiovascular rehospitalizations.
All-cause Rehospitalizations | ||||||||
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Unadjusted |
Adjusted for NYHA class and Parsonnet score |
Adjusted for NYHA class and EuroSCORE 2 |
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# of elevated biomarkers |
Patient years |
Number of events |
Event rate per patient year |
95% CI |
Event rate per patient year |
95% CI |
Event rate per patient year |
95% CI |
0–1 | 888.32 | 295 | 0.33 | (0.26, 0.42) | 0.36 | (0.29, 0.46) | 0.34 | (0.27, 0.43) |
2–3 | 1889.87 | 760 | 0.40 | (0.35, 0.47) | 0.41 | (0.36, 0.47) | 0.41 | (0.36, 0.48) |
4–6 | 1872.12 | 1139 | 0.61 | (0.54, 0.69) | 0.57 | (0.50, 0.64) | 0.60 | (0.53, 0.68) |
7 | 294.11 | 218 | 0.74 | (0.56, 0.98) | 0.54 | (0.41, 0.71) | 0.60 | (0.45, 0.80) |
Relative event rate increase (vs. 0–1) |
Relative event rate increase (vs. 0–1) |
Relative event rate increase (vs. 0–1) |
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2–3 | 1.21, p=0.19 | 1.13, p=0.36 | 1.20, p=0.19 | |||||
4–6 | 1.83, p<0.001 | 1.56, p<0.001 | 1.74, p<0.001 | |||||
7 | 2.23, p<0.001 | 1.48, p=0.034 | 1.74, p=0.004 | |||||
Cardiovascular Rehospitalizations | ||||||||
Unadjusted |
Adjusted for NYHA class and Parsonnet score |
Adjusted for NYHA class and EuroSCORE 2 |
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# of elevated biomarkers |
Patient years |
Number of events |
Event rate per patient year |
95% CI |
Event rate per patient year |
95% CI |
Event rate per patient year |
95% CI |
0–1 | 888.32 | 77 | 0.09 | (0.06, 0.13) | 0.10 | (0.06, 0.14) | 0.09 | (0.06, 0.14) |
2–3 | 1889.87 | 197 | 0.10 | (0.08, 0.14) | 0.11 | (0.08, 0.14) | 0.11 | (0.08, 0.14) |
4–6 | 1872.12 | 372 | 0.20 | (0.16, 0.24) | 0.18 | (0.15, 0.22) | 0.19 | (0.16, 0.24) |
7 | 294.11 | 72 | 0.24 | (0.16, 0.38) | 0.16 | (0.11, 0.26) | 0.19 | (0.12, 0.30) |
Relative event rate increase (vs. 0–1) |
Relative event rate increase (vs. 0–1) |
Relative event rate increase (vs. 0–1) |
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2–3 | 1.20, p=0.48 | 1.10, p=0.68 | 1.20, p=0.47 | |||||
4–6 | 2.29, p<0.001 | 1.87, p=0.005 | 2.17, p<0.001 | |||||
7 | 2.82, p<0.001 | 1.71, p=0.08 | 2.12, p=0.018 |
Abbreviations: NYHA, New York Heart Association