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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 8.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Apr 8:CIRCIMAGING120011701. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.120.011701

Table 3A:

Association of carotid plaque with coronary heart disease events (N=2673)

Unadjusted Model 1 Model 2
HR (95% CI) P-value HR (95% CI) P-value HR (95% CI) P-value
Carotid Plaque 2.31
(1.48, 3.61)		 <0.001 1.95
(1.23, 3.08)		 0.004 1.66
(1.04, 2.66)		 0.033
Age
(per 5-years) 		1.20
(1.06, 1.36)		 0.004 1.20
(1.05, 1.38)		 0.009
Male 1.13
(0.71, 1.79)		 0.612 1.00
(0.60, 1.65)		 0.985
Race (ref=White) 0.490 0.698
 Chinese 0.56
(0.22, 1.47)		 0.56
(0.21, 1.47)
 Black 1.18
(0.70, 2.01)		 0.94
(0.54, 1.65)
 Hispanic 1.10
(0.61, 1.98)		 0.96
(0.53, 1.75)
Diabetes 1.54
(0.79, 2.99)		 0.201
Smoking 2.57
(1.50, 4.43)		 <0.001
SBP
(per 10-mmHg) 		1.08
(0.96, 1.2)		 0.207
Antihypertensive use 1.24
(0.75, 2.06)		 0.409
TC
(per 40-mg/dL) 		1.00
(0.77, 1.3)		 0.984
HDL-C
(per 5-mg/dL) 		0.96
(0.89, 1.05)		 0.410
Statin use 1.27
(0.68, 2.38)		 0.452

Cox proportional hazards regression models with carotid plaque as independent variable and time-to-coronary heart disease event as dependent variable. Abbreviations: HR=hazard ratio, CI=confidence interval, rest of the abbreviations same as Tables 1 and 2.