Table 1.
Baseline Characteristics.
Fig 1.
Distribution of serum cTnI and serum cTnT.
(A) Box Whisker plot of serum cTnI and cTnT concentrations indicating the median, interquartile range, 2.5th and 97.5th percentile. The dotted lines represent the 99th percentile cut-off for a positive test. (B) Box and Whisker plot of serum cTnI and cTnT expressed as multiples of the 99th percentile. ***; p<0.001.
Table 2.
Univariate association of serum troponins with baseline characteristics using linear regression.
Table 3.
Linear regression for the association between tertiles of serum cardiac troponins, LVMI and LVEF.
Table 4.
Logistic regression for the association between tertiles of serum cardiac troponins and the presence of CAD.
Fig 2.
Unadjusted markers for cardiovascular disease divided per tertile of cTnI and cTnT.
Box and Whisker plot of serum cTnI and cTnT concentrations divided into tertiles (T1, T2, T3) indicating the median, interquartile range, 2.5th and 97.5th percentile for unadjusted LVMI (A) and LVEF (B). The percentage of patients with significant CAD divided per tertile of serum cTnI and cTnT are shown in graph C. Serum cTnI is shown in shades of blue and serum cTnT is shown in shades of green. LVMI: Left Ventricular Mass Index; LVEF: Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction; CAD: Coronary Artery Disease.