Table 2.
Number of cases and age-adjusted prevalence of any major ECG abnormality by sex in the total population and by ethnic group, and the odds of major ECG abnormalities in women compared with men, overall and with an interaction term for sex and ethnicity
| Men (no of cases, %*) |
Women (no of cases, %*) |
Model 1 | Model 2 | |||||||
| OR (95% CI) | P value | Ratio of ORs (95% CI)‡ | P value | OR (95% CI) | P value | Ratio of ORs (95% CI)‡ | P value | |||
| Overall | 540 (6.6) | 518 (4.6) | 0.69 (0.61 to 0.78)† | <0.001 | NA | NA | 0.71 (0.62 to 0.81)† | <0.001 | NA | NA |
| Dutch | 137 (7.3) | 79 (3.6) | 0.46 (0.34 to 0.61) | <0.001 | Reference | NA | 0.49 (0.36 to 0.65) | <0.001 | Reference | NA |
| SA Surinamese | 63 (6.0) | 110 (7.2) | 1.24 (0.90 to 1.72) | 0.19 | 2.69 (1.75 to 4.17) | <0.001 | 1.32 (0.96 to 1.84) | 0.09 | 2.72 (1.76 to 4.21) | <0.001 |
| African Surinamese | 107 (7.6) | 118 (5.3) | 0.68 (0.51 to 0.89) | <0.01 | 1.47 (0.99 to 2.18) | 0.06 | 0.68 (0.52 to 0.90) | <0.01 | 1.40 (0.94 to 2.09) | 0.10 |
| Ghanaian | 72 (7.9) | 71 (6.1) | 0.70 (0.49 to 0.98) | 0.04 | 1.51 (0.97 to 2.37) | 0.07 | 0.71 (0.51 to 1.01) | 0.055 | 1.47 (0.94 to 2.30) | 0.09 |
| Turkish | 89 (6.1) | 77 (4.4) | 0.71 (0.52 to 0.98) | 0.04 | 1.55 (1.01 to 2.37) | 0.045 | 0.73 (0.53 to 1.01) | 0.058 | 1.51 (0.98 to 2.32) | 0.06 |
| Moroccan | 72 (4.7) | 63 (2.9) | 0.59 (0.42 to 0.84) | <0.01 | 1.29 (0.82 to 2.02) | 0.27 | 0.61 (0.43 to 0.87) | <0.01 | 1.26 (0.80 to 1.99) | 0.33 |
Significant p values (p<0.05) are printed in italic.
Model 1: adjusted for age; model 2: adjusted for age, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes and smoking status.
*Age-adjusted prevalence.
†Additionally adjusted for ethnicity.
‡Measure of effect modification on multiplicative scale (statistical interaction term).
NA, not applicable; SA, South-Asian.