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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2022 Mar 15;15(3):e013526. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.121.013526

Table 2.

Number of Events and Age-adjusted rates of Individual CVD Outcomes in the ASCVD Cohort and the Global CVD cohort.

Outcomes in the Hard ASCVD cohort
(n=5,059; 155 events)
BAC = 0 mg
n=3,721 (73.5%)
BAC > 0 mg
n=1,338 (26.5%)
p
Num events Age-adjusted rate per 1,000
person-years
Num events Age-adjusted rate per 1,000
person-years
Acute myocardial infarction 33 1.31 18 1.75 0.09
Ischemic stroke 50 2.00 27 2.74 0.04
CVD death 15 0.58 18 1.65 0.0003
Any of the above 95 3.81 60 5.96 0.0002
Outcomes in the Global CVD cohort
(n=5,035; 427 events)
BAC = 0 mg
n=3,704 (73.6%)
BAC > 0 mg
n=1,331 (26.4%)
p
Ischemic heart disease (acute myocardial infarction + coronary angioplasty/stent/bypass graft surgery) 44 1.78 20 2.01 0.25
Cerebrovascular disease (ischemic stroke + hemorrhagic stroke) 71 2.84 36 3.54 0.048
Heart failure 66 2.47 33 2.77 0.08
Cardiomyopathy 5 0.20 6 0.61 0.03
Deep vein thrombosis\pulmonary embolism 24 0.88 16 1.29 0.04
Cardiac arrest 2 0.08 3 0.30 0.09
Peripheral arterial disease 95 3.89 46 4.82 0.04
Retinal vascular occlusion 2 0.07 4 0.31 0.04
CVD Death 15 0.58 17 1.56 0.0006
Any of the above 281 11.45 146 14.63 <.0001

BAC: breast arterial calcification; CVD: cardiovascular disease; ASCVD: atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.