Table 3.

Unadjusted Cox Proportional Hazards Regression Analysis of Predictors of Death among 1953 Children with Dilated Cardiomyopathy not Undergoing Heart Transplantation.

	N	Hazard ratio (95% CI)	p
Age, year	1953	1.02 (1.003, 1.04)	0.02
Male	1953	1.09 (0.87, 1.38)	0.45
Race	1917		0.13
White		Reference
Black		1.35 (1.02, 1.78)
Hispanic		0.94 (0.67, 1.31)
Other		0.93 (0.55, 1.55)
Era of diagnosis	1953		<0.001
Early cohort (1990–1999)		1.59 (1.22, 2.09)
Late cohort (2000–2010)		Reference
Type	1952		<0.001
Idiopathic		Reference
Myocarditis		0.48 (0.30, 0.76)
Neuromuscular disease		1.86 (1.36, 2.54)
Familial		0.42 (0.19, 0.94)
Error of metabolism		1.39 (0.76, 2.55)
Malformation syndrome		2.09 (0.78, 5.61)
Heart failure at diagnosis	1943	1.80 (1.37, 2.37)	<0.001
Diuretic therapy	1890	1.00 (0.73, 1.38)	0.67
Family history of sudden death	1121	1.14 (0.71, 1.81)	0.51
LVEDD‡ z-score	1527	1.04 (0.99, 1.09)	0.12
LVESD§ z-score	1338	1.07 (1.01, 1.12)	0.01
LV** fractional shortening z-score	1580	0.93 (0.89, 0.96)	<0.001
LV posterior wall thickness z-score	1235	0.94 (0.89, 1.01)	0.08
Septal thickness z-score	1127	0.91 (0.84, 0.99)	0.04
LV mass z-score	1217	1.01 (0.95, 1.06)	0.86

^‡LVEDD, left ventricular end-diastolic dimension

^§LVESD, left ventricular end-systolic dimension

^**LV, left ventricular