. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 7.

Published in final edited form as: Eur J Heart Fail. 2017 Sep 4;20(7):1106–1114. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.928

Table 2.

Event rates by quartiles of left ventricular ejection time

	1st Quartile	2nd Quartile	3rd Quartile	4th Quartile	P-value for
Left Ventricular Ejection Time (ms)	<322	322–340	341–360	>360	trend
	n=495	n=497	n=506	n=482
Event rate of composite endpoint (per 1000 person years) (95% CI)	35 (31; 39)	23 (20; 26)	24 (21; 28)	23 (20; 27)	<0.001
Event rate of heart failure (per 1000 person years) (95% CI)	17 (14; 21)	11 (9; 14)	12 (9; 14)	11 (9; 13)	0.001
Event rate of myocardial infarction failure (per 1000 person years) (95% CI)	6 (5; 9)	4 (3; 6)	6 (4; 7)	4 (3; 6)	0.25
Event rate of mortality (per 1000 person years) (95% CI)	25 (21; 28)	17 (14; 20)	12 (99; 14)	11 (9; 13)	<0.001