Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for men and women calculated by Cox regression.

Cut off points for quartiles: see Table 2. Ref = reference. Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals).
*Hazard ratios with p-values less than 0.05 are written in bold letters.
Model 1: uric acid.
Model 2: model 1+ age.
Model 3: model 2+ baseline serum creatinine and diuretics use.
Model 4: model 3+ baseline values of cholesterol, HDL-C, LDL-C, BMI, glucose, triglyceride, history of only diabetes/both diabetes and cardiovascular disease/only cardiovascular disease, history of congestive heart failure, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, waist-hip ratio, tobacco use, alcohol use, beta-blocker use, statin use, aspirin use and sibutramine use.