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Anemia as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in the atherosclerosis risk in communities (aric) study

Mark J. Sarnak, MD^*,*, Hocine Tighiouart, MS, Guruprasad Manjunath, MD^*, Bonnie MacLeod, BS, John Griffith, PhD, Deeb Salem, MD and Andrew S. Levey, MD^*

^* Division of NephrologyBoston, Massachusetts, USA
Division of Clinical Care ResearchBoston, Massachusetts, USA
Division of Cardiology, New England Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier survival analysis for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in men and women stratified by presence versus absence of anemia. Log-rank statistics were significant (p = 0.03 for men and p = 0.04 for women) for differences between anemic and nonanemic subjects. Dotted line = anemia; solid line = nonanemia.