Table 3 Threshold effect analysis of NLR on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in CVD patients with diabetes or pre-diabetes.

From: Association of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in CVD patients with diabetes or pre-diabetes

 

Hazard ratio (95% CI)

P value

All-cause mortality

 Total

1.14(1.10, 1.19)

< 0.001

 Fitting by two-piecewise Cox proportional hazard model

  Inflection point

1.776

 

  NLR < 1.776

0.87(0.76, 0.98)

0.004

  NLR ≥ 1.776

1.15(1.10, 1.26)

< 0.001

  P for Log-likelihood ratio

< 0.001

 

Cardiovascular mortality

 Total

1.17(1.10, 1.25)

< 0.001

  1. Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate Hazard Ratio and 95% CI. Adjusted for age, sex, race, BMI, LDL, HDL, TC, TG, eGFR, education, smoke status, hypertension, and cancer. CI confidence interval, NLR neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio.
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