Table 3
Association of standardised leadership score with incident IHD among employees after adjustment for different risk factors
at baseline*
| Adjustment variables in addition to age | Hazard ratio for IHD per 1 SD increase in leadership score(95% CI) |
| None | 0.65 (0.49 to 0.87) |
| Education, supervisory status, social class, income | 0.67 (0.49 to 0.90) |
| and physical load at work | |
| Smoking, physical exercise | 0.65 (0.49 to 0.87) |
| BMI, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total | 0.61 (0.46 to 0.82) |
| cholesterol, total/HDL cholesterol ratio, triglycerides, | |
| fibrinogen, diabetes | |
| All of the above | 0.63 (0.46 to 0.86) |
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*Only those with a minimum of 4-year exposure and no missing data in any of the predictors were included in these models (n = 1319, 40 events).
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Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) included unstable angina. HDL, high density lipoprotein.
