Table 4.
Control | RIPC alone | Nitrates alone | RIPC + Nitrates | |||||
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N = 446 | N = 445 | N = 308 | N = 303 | |||||
All-cause mortality—N (%) | 33 | (7.4) | 29 | (6.5) | 16 | (5.2) | 35 | (11.6) |
Cardiovascular mortality—N (%) | 20 | (4.5) | 20 | (4.5) | 7 | (2.3) | 22 | (7.3) |
Peri-operative MI—N (%) | 127 | (28.5) | 98 | (22.0) | 55 | (17.9) | 65 | (21.5) |
72-h AUC hs-cTnT—mean (SEM) | ||||||||
Complete case data (N = 701) | 51,569 | (2313) | 44,070 | (1739) | 42,158 | (1979) | 38,540 | (1724) |
Multiple imputation data (N = 1460)a | 50,106 | (2205) | 46,715 | (2043) | 42,619 | (1989) | 41,916 | (1928) |
N, number; %, percent; SEM, standard error of mean
a42 patients excluded from multiple imputation, reasons for exclusions were: 24 died before 72 h; 18 patients at sites that did not collect hs-cTnT up to 72 h