Relation of Biomarkers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress with Hypertension Occurrence in Lone Atrial Fibrillation

Table 5

Multivariate Cox proportional hazard models for the association of biomarkers with the occurrence of hypertension in lone AF patients.

Biomarkers	Multivariable Cox analysis			Model discriminatory ability			Pairwise comparison of model discriminatory ability
	HR	95% CI	value	-statistic	95% CI	value	-statistic	95% CI	value
CRP (per quartile increase)	2.54	1.26–5.12	0.009	0.905	0.819–0.990	<0.001	0.322 (CRP versus oxLDL)	−0.073–0.101	0.7477
oxLDL (per quartile increase)	2.24	1.14–4.40	0.019	0.925	0.850–0.999	<0.001

HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval.