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Table 3 Cardiovascular deaths, Heart failure rehospitalization and their composite by highest serum uric acid quartile in the whole population, and according to ejection fraction categories

From: Serum uric acid and outcome in hospitalized elderly patients with chronic heart failure through the whole spectrum of ejection fraction phenotypes

Cardiovascular death

Serum Uric acid

N (%)

Multivariable HR

P value

Whole population

> 437.5

46/337 (13.6%)

2.404 (1.178–4.906)

0.016

HFrEF

> 492.0

22/84 (26.2%)

5.124 (1.457–18.012)

0.011

HFmrEF

> 431.4

14/98 (14.3%)

3.923 (1.250-12.308)

0.019

HFpEF

> 416.1

8/156 (5.1%)

0.902 (0.224–3.640)

0.885

Heart failure rehospitalization

Whole population

> 437.5

99/337 (29.4%)

1.418 (1.021–1.971)

0.037

HFrEF

> 492.0

21/84 (25.0%)

0.887 (0.483–1.627)

0.698

HFmrEF

> 431.4

26/98 (26.5%)

1.801 (0.896–3.621)

0.099

HFpEF

> 416.1

45/156 (28.8%)

1.030 (0.622–1.705)

0.908

Cardiovascular death or heart failure rehospitalization

Whole population

> 437.5

144/337 (42.7%)

1.439 (1.049–1.972)

0.024

HFrEF

> 492.0

43/84 (51.2%)

1.656 (1.017–2.697)

0.043

HFmrEF

> 431.4

40/98 (40.8%)

2.504 (1.380–4.543)

0.003

HFpEF

> 416.1

52/156 (33.3%)

0.913 (0.567–1.470)

0.709