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Table 7 Survival analysis for 30-day all-cause mortality using continuous covariates

From: GDF-15: a novel biomarker of heart failure predicts short-term and long-term heart-failure rehospitalization and short-term mortality in patients with acute heart failure syndrome

30-day all-cause mortality

Factor

Univariate analysis

Multivariate analysis

Cox proportional hazards

Schoenfeld residuals

Cox proportional hazards

Schoenfeld residuals

HR (95%CI)

p-value

p-value

HR (95%CI)

p-value

p-value

Admission

 Total orthoedema score

3.18 (1.09–9.33)

0.02

0.27

   

 Log NT-proBNP (pg/mL)

1.44 (0.8–2.58)

0.20

0.02

0.92 (0.43–1.99)

0.83

0.03

 Log hsTnT (pg/mL)

1.32 (0.93–1.85)

0.16

0.57

1.22 (0.74–1.99)

0.45

0.54

 Log GDF-15 (pg/mL)

4.57 (1.11–18.91)

 < 0.01

0.41

4.42 (0.96–20.3)

0.02

0.41

Discharge

 Total orthoedema score

NA

0.52

    

 Log NT-proBNP (pg/mL)

0.6 (0.21–1.67)

0.27

 

NA

0.02

0.43

 Log hsTnT (pg/mL)

1.18 (0.37–3.75)

0.78

 

NA

1.00

0.94

 Log GDF-15 (pg/mL)

8.4 (0.23–300.48)

0.12

 

NA

0.03

0.99

 Diff Log NT-proBNP (pg/mL)

1.23 (0.28–5.36)

0.78

 

1.51 (0.42–5.44)

0.55

0.25

 Diff Log hsTnT (pg/mL)

0.59 (0.11–3.17)

0.60

 

0.92 (0.16–5.22)

0.92

0.62

 Diff Log GDF-15 (pg/mL)

0.23 (0.02–3.09)

0.30

 

0.17 (0.00–6.43)

0.33

0.49