Table 3. Discharge heart rate, trajectories of the heart rate, and hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval for post-discharge all-cause mortality and heart failure re-admission.

	All-cause mortality	p value	Heart failure re-admission	p value
Events	202		531
Adjusted hazard ratio (95% CI)
Discharge HR (categorical)
(Group 2/Group 1)	0.48 (0.18-1.30)	0.15	0.64 (0.30-1.37)	0.25
(Group 3/Group 1)	0.51 (0.14-1.84)	0.30	0.72 (0.31-1.66)	0.44
(Group 4/Group 1)	0.98 (0.33-2.91)	0.97	0.80 (0.34-1.87)	0.60
Trajectories of HR (high-increasing-decreasing/low-stable)	3.10 (1.24-7.77)	0.016	1.13 (0.55-2.32)	0.75

CI, confidence interval; HR, heart rate.

Covariates: age, sex, blood pressure, New York Heart Association functional class, left ventricular ejection fraction, brain natriuretic peptide, creatinine, troponin I, rhythm, antihypertensive medications, and history of smoking, alcohol, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and coronary artery disease.