Statin use reduces cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality amongst Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a 5-year cohort study

Table 5 Multivariable Cox proportional hazard regression on the dependent variables of CVD event and all-cause mortality within statin group

	Post LDL-C < 2.6 mmol/L (n = 7641) comparing with post LDL-C ≥ 2.6 mmol/L (n = 2463)
	HR^a	95%CI	P-value
Main Analysis (N = 10,104)
CVD	0.491	(0.422,0.571)	<0.001*
CHD	0.477	(0.385,0.591)	<0.001*
Heart Failure	0.444	(0.329,0.600)	<0.001*
Stroke	0.553	(0.433,0.708)	<0.001*
All-cause Mortality	0.487	(0.393,0.602)	<0.001*

LDL-C Low Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol, CVD Cardiovascular Disease, CHD Coronary Heart Disease
*p-value <0.05
^aHazard ratios were adjusted by age, gender, smoking status, haemoglobin A1c, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, triglyceride, low density liporotein-cholesterol, body mass index, total cholesterol-to-high density lipoprotein-cholesterol ratio, presence of chronic kidney disease, duration of diabetes mellitus, Charlson Index, diagnosed hypertension, family history of diabetes mellitus and usages of insulin, oral and anti-hypertensive drugs index at baseline

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