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Table 2 Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) obtained from Cox proportional hazards models predicting time to death among men

From: Demographic and biologic influences on survival in whites and blacks: 40 years of follow-up in the Charleston heart study

 

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Baseline characteristic

HR

95% CI

HR

95% CI

HR

95% CI

White ethnicity

1.00

0.88, 1.16

1.10

0.95, 1.27

1.14

0.98, 1.32

Baseline age (years)

1.08

1.07, 1.09

1.08

1.07, 1.08

1.07

1.07, 1.08

Blue collar occupation

-

 

1.13

0.94, 1.34

1.08

0.90, 1.29

Education (years)

-

 

0.98

0.96, 1.00

0.98

0.96, 1.00

Current smoker

-

 

-

 

1.67

1.37, 2.03

Former smoker

-

 

-

 

1.23

0.96, 1.58

BMI (kg/m2)

-

 

-

 

0.99

0.97, 1.01

Total serum cholesterol*

-

 

-

 

1.00

0.98, 1.01

History of diabetes

-

 

-

 

1.84

1.29, 2.64

Elevated blood pressure**

-

 

-

 

1.41

1.22, 1.62

  1. * The hazard ratio associated with total serum cholesterol is for a 10 mg/Dl increase.
  2. ** See text for elevated blood pressure definition.