Hemoglobin A1C as a prognostic factor and the pre-diabetic paradox in patients admitted to a tertiary care medical center intensive cardiac care unit

Table 4 The association between HbA1c group and mortality in a multivariate Cox-logistic regression model

	HR	95% CI	p-value
Gender (male)	1.438	0.827–2.501	0.198
Age	1.063	1.035–1.092	< 0.001
Hypertension	0.959	0.490–1.877	0.903
Hyperlipidemia	1.353	0.757–2.417	0.307
A DM history	1.082	0.593–1.976	0.797
Any in-hospital complication	2.206	1.257–3.872	0.006
Prior intervention	0.440	0.234–0.827	0.011
Heart failure/cardiomyopathy/valvular heart disease	2.336	1.338–4.079	0.003
HbA1c ≥ 6.5%	1.552	0.812–2.967	0.184

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