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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 4.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Apr 3;61(22):2253–2261. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.12.056

Figure 1. Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves of All Patients (N = 260) Dichotomized According to MELD Values.

Figure 1

Data were dichotomized according to (A) Model for End-Stage Liver Dysfunction (MELD); (B) MELD serum sodium score (MELDNa); and (C) MELD without international normalized ratio score (MELD-XI) by using the average cutoff value (12) derived from the receiver-operating characteristic analysis for 1-year death/heart transplantation (HTx)/ventricular assist device requirement. The survivals are represented by the solid red line for patients with low scores (<12) and the solid blue line for patients with high scores (>12). The p values obtained by the log-rank test were (A) p < 0.0001, (B) p < 0.0001, and (C) p < 0.0001.