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. 2017 Mar 6;33(6):837–845. doi: 10.1007/s10554-017-1075-5

Table 3.

Cox proportional hazard regression for 1-year all-cause mortality in patients with light-chain cardiac amyloidosis

Hazard ratio (95% confidence interval), adjusted for age, gender and BMI P value
NYHA class III–IV vs. I–II 6.55 (1.89–22.75) 0.003
LV-FS (%) 0.91 (0.86–0.97) 0.002
LV-EF (%) 0.95 (0.91–0.99) 0.009
Septal MAPSE (mm) 0.73 (0.58–0.91) 0.006
DT (ms) 0.98 (0.97–0.99) 0.002
E/E′ 1.05 (1.00–1.10) 0.038
ET (ms) 0.98 (0.96–0.99) 0.001
IVCT (ms) 1.01 (1.01–1.02) 0.002
Tei index 47.04 (7.79–284.10) <0.001
Tei index ≥0.9 vs. <0.9 8.48 (3.27–21.99) <0.001
GLSsys (%) 1.18 (1.06–1.33) 0.004
GLSRsys (S− 1) 8.33 (1.55–44.78) 0.014
Septal LSsysapi/bas 1.36 (0.83–2.23) 0.223
GLSRdias (S− 1) 0.24 (0.06–1.01) 0.051
E/GLSRdias 1.92 (1.19–3.08) 0.007
Model including Tei index, NYHA class and other conventional echocardiographic variables
 NYHA class III–IV vs. I–II 6.79 (1.27–36.39) 0.025
 LV-EF (%) 1.04 (0.96–1.13) 0.309
 Septal MAPSE (mm) 0.85 (0.68–1.06) 0.153
 E/E′ 0.99 (0.92–1.06) 0.788
 Tei index ≥0.9 vs. <0.9 12.33 (2.92–52.04) 0.001
Model including Tei index and deformation variables
 GLSsys ≤13% vs. >13% 3.88 (0.84–17.93) 0.082
 E/GLSRdias ≥2.0 vs. <2.0 1.44 (0.48–4.35) 0.517
 Tei index ≥0.9 vs. <0.9 7.01 (2.43–20.21) <0.001

Abbreviations as in Tables 1 and 2