Biomarkers of Inflammation and Thrombosis as Predictors of Near-Term Mortality in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Cohort Study

The points in the survivor figure represent d-dimer levels in participants who survived during the following year. These individual d-dimer values are connected to show the trajectory of d-dimer levels over time in a randomly selected subset of participants who survived the 4-year follow-up. The open circles in the decedent figure represent d-dimer levels in participants who died during the year after d-dimer measurement. Individual d-dimer values are connected to show the trajectory of d-dimer levels at each visit in a randomly selected subset of participants who died during the 4-year follow-up. The boxes in each figure (survivors and decedents) represent mean d-dimer values for those who survived and died during the year after the measurement, respectively.