Fig. 3

Nonlinear relationship between fibrinogen and cardiovascular (a) and all-cause (b) mortality. Multivariate adjusted logarithmic value of hazard ratios of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality associated with plasma fibrinogen levels in a Cox regression model using restricted cubic splines, adjusted for age, sex, smoking, a history of cardiovascular events, diabetes, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, hemoglobin, blood platelet count, serum potassium, serum albumin, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, hypersensitive C-reactive protein, estimated glomerular filtration rate, and the use of antiplatelet agents and lipid-lowering drugs. Hypersensitive C-reactive protein was log-transformed