A Preliminary Study of microRNA-208b after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Impact on 6-Month Survival

Table 3

Results of Cox regression analyses for clinical variables and miR-208 relative expression among AMI patients.

Characteristics	HR	95% CI	value
Age	1.04	(0.98–1.10)	0.15
Cardiac troponin T (ng/mL)	0.97	(0.87–1.05)	0.33
Relative expression
<12.38	Reference		0.03
≥12.38	5.08	(1.13–22.82)
Gender
Female	Reference		0.35
Male	2.81	(0.33–23.91)
Smoking
No	Reference		0.81
Yes	1.21	(0.27–5.48)
Diabetes
No	Reference		0.69
Yes	0.66	(0.08–5.48)
Hypertension
No	Reference		0.75
Yes	1.30	(0.25–6.77)
Hyperlipidemia
No	Reference		0.33
Yes	2.16	(0.46–10.13)
Decrease in EF
No	Reference		0.85
Yes	1.19	(0.19–7.53)

HR: hazard ratio. Cutoff = 0.55.