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Flowchart showing which Rancho Bernardo Study participants were included in the present analyses.

Distribution of coronary artery calcification scores by fetuin-A quartiles among 382 community-living individuals without clinically apparent cardiovascular disease: The Rancho Bernardo Study

(a) Unadjusted comparisons of overall and cause-specific mortality⁺ by quartile of total LOT-R; Rancho Bernardo, CA, 1999–2012 (n = 876). Reference: all-cause mortality, p = 0.01 when Q1 compared to Q4; cancer mortality, p = 0.05 when Q1 compared to Q4; CHD mortality, p = 0.001 when Q1 compared to Q4; ⁺all-cause, cancer, CVD, and CHD mortality are present among those who died. (b) Unadjusted comparisons of overall and cause-specific mortality⁺ by tertile of optimism subscale score; Rancho Bernardo, CA, 1999–2012 (n = 876). Reference: cancer mortality, p = 0.03 when T1 compared to T3; CHD mortality, p = 0.003 when T1 compared to T3. (c) Unadjusted comparisons of overall and cause-specific mortality⁺ by tertile of pessimism subscale score; Rancho Bernardo, CA, 1999–2012 (n = 876). Reference: all-cause mortality, p = 0.002 when T1 compared to T3.

Adult female Hyla eximia from Rancho Santa Elena in the municipality of Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo, Mexico. Photograph taken by Uriel Hernández-Salinas.