Central Illustration. Heart failure risk among chronic inflammatory disease groups.
Adjusted cox proportional hazard ratios (square markers) and 95% confidence intervals (error bars) for incident heart failure for each chronic inflammatory disease group are presented in forest plots after adjustment for (A) age, sex, race, insurance, hypertension, diabetes (Model 1) and (B) additional adjustment for chronic kidney disease (Model 2). CID = chronic inflammatory disease; other abbreviations as in Figure 1.