Table 7.

Major nine important variables in predicting vascular events and bleeding.

Average Ranking of Variables	Variable of Prediction of Vascular Events	Variable of Prediction of Bleeding
1	Age	Age
2	History of CHF	Kidney function
3	History of MI	Smoking
4	Smoking	Previous bleeding history
5	Kidney function	Concomitant use of drugs
6	BMI	Medicine dosage (dabigatran)
7	Ethnicity	BMI
8	History of diabetes mellitus	History of MI
9	Medicine dosage (dabigatran)	History of CHF

Abbr.: CHF, congestive heart failure; MI, myocardial infarction; BMI, body mass index.