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Table 3 Year-specific hazard ratios of death within one year of a heart failure-related hospitalization

From: Historical trends in survival of hospitalized heart failure patients: 2000 versus 1995

  

Hazard Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)

  

Men

Women

All

Variable

 

1995 (N = 1,216)

2000 (N = 987)

1995 (N = 1,041)

2000 (N = 838)

1995 (N = 2,257)

2000 (N = 1,825)

Sex

Women

--

--

--

--

Ref.

Ref.

 

Men

--

--

--

--

1.41 (1.21–1.64)

1.09 (0.91–1.30)

Age (years)

35–64

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

 

65–74

1.22 (0.96–1.55)

1.87 (1.37–2.55)

1.68 (1.20–2.33)

2.57 (1.76–3.75)

1.38 (1.14–1.68)

2.13 (1.67–2.70)

 

75–79

1.89 (1.47–2.42)

2.32 (1.70–3.18)

1.92 (1.37–2.70)

2.44 (1.65–3.60)

1.90 (1.56–2.33)

2.35 (1.84–2.99)

LVEF (%)

>45

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

Ref.

 

26–45

0.67 (0.43–1.03)

1.29 (0.77–2.16)

1.98 (1.24–3.17)

1.30 (0.81–2.10)

1.11 (0.81–1.53)

1.25 (0.89–1.76)

 

≤25

1.32 (0.88–1.96)

1.59 (0.97–2.60)

1.83 (1.08–3.10)

1.24 (0.76–2.02)

1.62 (1.18–2.22)

1.43 (1.03–2.00)

 

Missing

1.20 (0.83–1.72)

1.78 (1.12–2.80)

1.88 (1.24–2.84)

1.67 (1.16–2.41)

1.52 (1.16–2.00)

1.70 (1.28–2.26)

  1. LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction