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Table 2 Fifteen-day mortality in the MIAMI trial [3]

From: Debate: A subversive view of subsets - a dissident clinician's opinion

Number of risk factors (RFs)

Placebo

Metoprolol

Odds ratio

95% confidence interval

0

0% (0/259)

0% 0/207

NA

NA

1

1.3% (11/790)

1.8% (15/820)

1.32

0.602-2.891

2

5.2% (43/825)

5.6% (47/839)

1.079

0.705-1.651

3

6.3% (31/482)

5.6% (27/486)

0.856

0.503-1.457

4

9.1% (26/286)

7.0% (21/302)

0.747

0.41-1.361

≥ 5

11.6% (30/259)

5.8% (13/223)

0.473

0.24-0.93

  1. Breslow-Day test: χ2 = 5.538, DF = 4, P = 0.236. Breslow-Day (≤ 2 RFs versus >2 RFs): χ2 = 4.016, DF = 1, P = 0.045. Testing for interaction of number of risk factors and study, P = 0.044.