Prognostic values of the SYNTAX score II and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate on long-term clinical outcomes in STEMI patients with multivessel disease: a retrospective cohort study

Table 3 Akaike’s information criteria and likelihood ratio test to determine the best fitting model for predicting MACE, cardiovascular death, and heart failure

		Akaike’s information criteria	Likelihood ratio test
Clinical outcomes	Model	AICc	χ²	df	P-value
MACE	SSII	1299.304
MACE	SSII + ESR	1284.235	17.07	1	< 0.001
Cardiovascular death	SSII	299.6875
Cardiovascular death	SSII + ESR	295.6914	6.00	1	0.01
Heart failure	SSII	461.0
Heart failure	SSII + ESR	438.9405	24.06	1	< 0.001

Abbreviations: AICc, corrected Akaike’s information criteria; SSII SYNTAX score II, ESR erythrocyte sedimentation rate, MACE major adverse cardiovascular events

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