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Table 2 Cox proportional hazard regression analysis on mortality of diabetic patients after first acute myocardial infarction

From: The impact of DPP-4 inhibitors on long-term survival among diabetic patients after first acute myocardial infarction

Characteristics (all, N = 5344)

HR (95% CI)

Sex (male vs female)

0.98 (0.89–1.07)

Age (65 ≤ age < 75 vs age <65)

1.71 (1.5–1.96)***

Age (age ≥75 vs age <65)

2.51 (2.2–2.85)***

Hypertension (yes vs no)

1.2 (1.06–1.37)**

Peripheral vascular disease (yes vs no)

1.57 (1.34–1.84)***

Heart failure (yes vs no)

1.35 (1.23–1.49)***

End stage renal disease (yes vs no)

1.76 (1.51–2.06)***

Cerebrovascular disease (yes vs no)

1.33 (1.21–1.47)***

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (yes vs no)

1.33 (1.16–1.52)***

Percutaneous coronary intervention (yes vs no)

0.54 (0.49–0.6)***

Any antiplatelet (yes vs no)

0.58 (0.49–0.7)***

ACEI or ARB (yes vs no)

0.72 (0.65–0.8)***

β-Blocker (yes vs no)

0.79 (0.71–0.87)***

Heparin or low molecular weight heparin (yes vs no)

1.02 (0.91–1.15)

α-Glucosidase (yes vs no)

0.95 (0.83–1.08)

Glinides (yes vs no)

1.05 (0.94–1.18)

Metformin (yes vs no)

0.77 (0.68–0.86)***

Sulfonylureas (yes vs no)

0.91 (0.82–1.01)

Thiazolidinedione (yes vs no)

0.79 (0.59–1.04)

DPP-4 inhibitor (yes vs no)

0.86 (0.78–0.95)**

  1. ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001