Research Article
High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T Is a Risk Factor for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality: A 9.5-Year Follow-Up Study
Table 3
Cox proportional hazards models analysis for associations between baseline hs-cTnT levels and outcomes.
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Models are defined as follows: model 1 = adjusted for age and gender; model 2 = adjusted for model 1 + presence of hypertension or diabetes mellitus, current smoking status, systolic blood pressure, postprandial blood glucose, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, antihypertensive medication use, and antidiabetic medication use; model 3 = adjusted for model 2 + estimated glomerular filtration rate; model 4 = adjusted for model 3 + high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (both after logarithmic transformation). MACE, major adverse cardiovascular event. |