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Table 2 Frequency of cardiovascular toxicities by treatment received

From: Cardiovascular toxicities after anthracycline and VEGF-targeted therapies in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors

 

Anthracycline only

VEGF inhibitor only

Anthracycline and VEGF inhibitor (N = 74)

 

(N = 891)

(N = 200)

N

(%)

N

(%)

aHR (95% CI)

N

(%)

aHR (95% CI)

p*

Any Cardiovascular Toxicity

230

(25.8)

38

(19.0)

0.72 (0.51–1.01)

22

(29.7)

1.06 (0.70–1.61)

0.15

 Hypertension

172

(21.0)

30

(17.4)

0.84 (0.57–1.24)

21

(30.0)

1.32 (0.85–2.05)

0.27

 Cardiomyopathy/heart failure

12

(1.4)

0

(0)

-

0

(0)

-

*

 Cardiomegaly

3

(0.3)

1

(0.5)

-

0

(0)

-

*

 Pericardial disease

21

(2.4)

2

(1.0)

-

0

(0)

-

*

 Myocardial infarction

4

(0.5)

0

(0)

-

0

(0)

-

*

 Coronary artery disease

1

(0.1)

0

(0)

-

0

(0)

-

*

 Conduction abnormality/dysrhythmia

47

(5.3)

5

(2.5)

0.45 (0.18–1.13)

2

(2.7)

0.48 (0.12–1.95)

0.15

 Cerebrovascular event

3

(0.3)

1

(0.5)

-

0

(0)

-

*

 Valvular degeneration

5

(0.6)

1

(0.5)

0.72 (0.09–5.88)

2

(2.8)

4.47 (0.82–24.43)

0.17

 Peripheral vascular disease

7

(0.8)

0

(0)

-

0

(0)

-

*

  1. Groups were compared using Cox proportional hazard models adjusted for age and sex to evaluate time until onset of the cardiovascular toxicity. The anthracyline only group was used for the reference. Study participants with a baseline diagnosis of the cardiovasular toxicity were removed from the given analysis. E.g. the 30 patients in the VEGF group with hypertension are new onset hypertension after excluding the 28 patients with baseline hypertension
  2. CI Confidence interval
  3. *No statistical comparison was made due to infrequent events