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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2010 Feb 4;29(5):531–537. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.12.003

Table 2.

Univariate Cox regression for progression of BOS stage 1 to death

Variable Death
Hazard Ratio (95% CI) p
Time Dependent
 No Azithromycin 1.00
 Azithromycin (total group) 1.08 (0.66–1.74) 0.78
  Azithromycin during BOS 1 0.29 (0.11–0.82) 0.02
  Azithromycin Post-BOS 2 1.54 (0.91–2.61) 0.11

Time Independent*
Female 1.28 (0.79–2.10) 0.32
Age at transplant (per year) 1.00 (0.98–1.02) 0.65
Underlying Disease 0.51
 COPD 1.00
 α1-AT 1.65 (0.82–3.35)
 Cystic Fibrosis 1.56 (0.77–3.14)
 Pulmonary Fibrosis 1.11 (0.43–2.84)
 Other 0.76 (0.18–3.15)
Ischemic Time (per min) 1.00 (1.00–1.01) 0.26
Ischemic Time > 330 min 1.41 (0.86–2.30) 0.17
Date of transplant, (per day) 1.00 (1.00-1.00) 0.64
Type of Transplant 0.87
 Bilateral 1.00
 Single 1.09 (0.40–3.01)
PGD at T0 0.052
 0 1.00
 1 1.74 (0.71–4.21)
 2 1.95 (0.78–4.93)
 3 3.57 (1.35–9.41)
Highest A score 0.74
 0 1.00
 1 1.48 (0.71–3.08)
 2 1.14 (0.58–2.26)
 3 1.23 (0.48–3.14)
Highest B score 0.99
 0 1.00
 1 1.03 (0.58–1.86)
 2 1.09 (0.54–2.20)
 3 1.17 (0.27–5.09)
Pseudomonas culture positive 1.74 (1.04–2.93) 0.04
CMV pneumonia 1.03 (0.63–1.68) 0.92
CARV infection 1.10 (0.60–2.03) 0.76
FEV1 at BOS stage 1 (per liter) 0.47 (0.33–0.66) <0.001
Antithymocyte globulin for BOS stage 1 0.82 (0.49–1.38) 0.46
*

Time independent analysis included No Azithro (n=95) and Early Azithro (n=31) cohorts

Definition of abbreviations: see Table 1