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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 12.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2018 Nov 12;11(21):2172–2181. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2018.07.039

Table 4. All-cause and cardiovascular rehospitalizations.

All-cause Rehospitalizations
Unadjusted Adjusted for NYHA class and
Parsonnet score
Adjusted for NYHA class and
EuroSCORE 2
# 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)
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
# 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)
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