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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: In multivariate Cox analyses adjusting for randomized treatment, age, sex, body mass index, diabetes, history of heart failure, atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, smoking, serum total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, creatinine level, glucose level, and urine albumin/creatinine ratio and for incident myocardial infarction, in-treatment heart rate, QRS duration, diastolic and systolic pressure, Cornell voltage-duration product, and Sokolow-Lyon voltage left ventricular hypertrophy treated as time-varying covariates, black race remained associated with a 98 % increased risk of SCD (hazard ratio 1. 98 ; 95 % confidence interval 1. 12-3. 59 ; P =. 020).