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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Liver Transpl. 2014 Oct 24;20(11):1306–1316. doi: 10.1002/lt.23950

Table 4.

Multivariate predictors of 30-day cardiovascular mortality after orthotopic liver transplantation

Characteristic Total Population 30-day cardiovascular mortality
N=54,697 Beta Coefficient Odds Ratio(95% CI) P-value
Age, year, mean ± SD 54.0 ± 9.5 0.017 1.02 (1.10–1.03) 0.001
Female (forced in), n (%) 17,198 (31.4) 0.184 1.20 (1.00–1.45) 0.052
Medical condition prior to transplant, n (%)
 Not hospitalized 41,090 (75.2) Reference
 Hospitalized not in ICU 9032 (16.5) 0.208 1.23 (0.95–1.60) 0.121
 In ICU 4489 (8.2) 0.623 1.86 (1.34–2.60) <0.001
Respiratory failure, n (%) 2242 (4.1) 0.719 2.05 (1.46–2.89) <0.001
MELD score (calculated), mean ± SD 19.0 ± 10.4 0.018 1.02 (1.01–1.03) <0.001
National Organ Allocation (versus Local/Regional), n (%) 2890 (5.3) 0.419 1.52 (1.08–2.14) 0.016
Portal vein thrombosis, n (%) 4195 (7.8) 0.397 1.49 (1.14–1.95) 0.004
Donor BMI, mean ± SD 28.2 ± 5.6 0.013 1.01 (1.00–1.02) 0.024
Cold ischemia time, hours, mean ± SD 0.12 ± 0.6 0.032 1.03 (1.01–1.05) 0.001
Center volume (forced in)
 Tertile 1 n/a Reference
 Tertile 2 n/a 0.176 0.84 (0.55–1.27) 0.404
 Tertile 3 n/a 0.390 0.68 (0.46–1.01) 0.055

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation, CI, confidence interval; ICU, intensive care unit; BMI, body mass index