Table 4.

Hazard ratio of cardiovascular events comparing participants meeting the Sodium-to-Potassium ratio ≤ 1.00, as reference, with those participants who exceed this ratio for all cardiovascular events (CVD), coronary heart disease events (CHD), heart failure, peripheral vascular disease (PVD), and Stroke.

	CVD (n=781)	CHD (n=530)	Heart Failure (n=274)	PVD (n=104)	Stroke (n=236)
Model 1	1.21 (1.04, 1.40)	1.13 (0.94, 1.35)	1.24 (0.96, 1.60)	1.13 (0.75, 1.69)	1.44 (1.09, 1.90)
Model 2	1.25 (1.08, 1.45)	1.12 (0.97, 1.38)	1.28 (0.99, 1.65)	1.22 (0.82, 1.83)	1.54 (1.17, 2.05)
Model 3	1.13 (0.96, 1.33)	1.11 (0.92, 1.34)	1.07 (0.81, 1.41)	1.11 (0.70, 1.74)	1.47 (1.07, 2.00)

Model 1: Age, sex, race

Model 2: Age, sex, race, diabetes, smoking (current and former), total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and treated hypertension

Model 3: Age, sex, race, diabetes, smoking (current and former), total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, treated hypertension, education, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, hip circumference, body mass index, aspirin use, intentional exercise, and GFR.