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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 2.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Heart Fail. 2016 Sep;9(9):e002881. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002881

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Spline function curve for the impact of cholesterol level at 3 mo after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation on mortality during LVAD support. The hazard of mortality reaches a lower threshold around a total cholesterol level of 130 mg/dL at 3 mo post-LVAD implantation. The nadir for the hazard of mortality is around 170 mg/dL. The spline curve adjusted for age, ischemic heart failure cause, ejection fraction, bridge-to-transplantation strategy, and baseline cholesterol is displayed.