Table 3.

Incremental Risk Factors for Death on the Heart Transplant Waitlist

	Coefficient ± SE	Hazard Ratio (95% Cl)	p Value	Reliability (%)*
Pre-listing
None	-	-	-	-
Complications on waitlist
New requirement for dialysis (Online Figure 2)	1.3 ± 0.34	3.67 (1.88–7.14)	<0.0001	67
Neurological events (Online Figure 3)	2.6 ± 0.29	13.5 (7.63–23.8)	<0.0001	83
More respiratory complications† (Online Figure 4)	0.58 ± 0.19	1.79 (1.23–2.59)	0.002	51
Laboratory values on waitlist
Higher creatinine	0.53 ± 0.078	(Online Figure 5)	<0.0001	72
Higher bilirubin‡	1.1 ± 0.102	(Online Figure 6)	<0.0001	97

^*Percent of times variable appeared in 500 bootstrap models.

^†Cumulative count at any given time of number of preceding respiratory events, defined for this study as tracheostomy and ventilation.

^‡Log (bilirubin), logarithmic transformation.

CI = confidence interval; SE = standard error.