Table 2.

Incidence rates for cause‐specific heart failure and cardiomyopathies by quintiles of resting heart rate

	Resting heart rate
	All	Q1 (35–62)	Q2 (63–69)	Q3 (70–75)	Q4 (76–83)	Q5 (84–145)
Heart failure
Heart failure with valvular or congenital heart disease (n)	985	167	177	166	239	236
Cases per 100 000 person‐years	3.2 (3.0–3.4)	2.6 (2.3–3.1)	2.9 (2.5–3.3)	2.9 (2.4–3.3)	3.9 (3.4–4.4)	3.8 (3.4–4.3)
Heart failure with coronary heart disease, diabetes, or hypertension (n)	4570	649	776	878	1018	1249
Cases per 100 000 person‐years	15.0 (14.5–15.4)	10.3 (9.5–11.1)	12.7 (11.8–13.6)	15.2 (14.2–16.2)	16.6 (15.6–17.6)	20.3 (19.1–21.4)
Heart failure with cardiomyopathy (n)	595	90	103	107	150	145
Cases per 100 000 person‐years	1.9 (1.8–2.1)	1.4 (1.1–1.7)	1.7 (1.4–2.0)	1.8 (1.5–2.2)	2.4 (2.1–2.9)	2.3 (2.0–2.8)
Heart failure, any other cause (n)	2264	379	410	397	513	565
Cases per 100 000 person‐years	7.4 (7.1–7.7)	6.0 (5.4–6.6)	6.7 (6.1–7.4)	6.9 (6.2–7.6)	8.3 (7.6–9.1)	9.2 (8.4–9.9)
Cardiomyopathies
Dilated cardiomyopathy (n)	2089	311	360	389	468	561
Cases per 100 000 person‐years	7.1 (6.8–7.4)	5.1 (4.5–5.7)	6.1 (5.5–6.7)	6.9 (6.3–7.7)	7.9 (7.2–8.6)	9.4 (8.6–10.2)
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (n)	490	103	99	90	102	96
Cases per 100 000 person‐years	1.7 (1.5–1.8)	1.7 (1.4–2.0)	1.7 (1.4–2.0)	1.6 (1.3–2.0)	1.7 (1.4–2.1)	1.6 (1.3–2.0)
Alcohol/drug‐induced cardiomyopathy (n)	404	59	74	87	99	85
Cases per 100 000 person‐years	1.4 (1.2–1.5)	1.0 (0.7–1.2)	1.2 (1.0–1.6)	1.6 (1.2–1.9)	1.7 (1.4–2.0)	1.4 (1.1–1.8)
Other cardiomyopathies (n)	394	89	68	65	81	91
Cases per 100 000 person‐years	1.3 (1.2–1.5)	1.5 (1.2–1.8)	1.1 (0.9–1.5)	1.2 (0.9–1.5)	1.4 (1.1–1.7)	1.5 (1.2–1.9)

Data presented as frequencies (n), and cases registered per 100 000 person‐years with corresponding 95% confidence interval.