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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Card Surg. 2019 Apr 3;34(5):329–336. doi: 10.1111/jocs.14038

Table 3.

Biomarker associations with readmission or mortality within 30-days from discharge

Biomarker Unadjusted Adjusted*
OR 95% CI p value OR 95% CI p value
GAL PRE Log Continuous 1.69 1.08 – 2.64 0.022 1.60 0.92 – 2.80 0.096
Above Median vs. Below 1.94 0.77 – 4.90 0.160 2.00 0.74 – 5.42 0.173
Tercile 2 vs. 1 2.23 0.70 – 7.11 0.174 2.84 0.82 – 9.81 0.100
Tercile 3 vs. 1 2.99 0.87 – 10.27 0.081 2.82 0.74 – 10.76 0.127
ST2 PRE Log Continuous 1.66 1.16 – 2.37 0.006 1.48 0.87 – 2.51 0.152
Above Median vs. Below 2.07 0.82–5.26 0.125 1.10 0.33 – 3.67 0.878
Tercile 2 vs. 1 2.58 1.17 – 3.66 0.012 2.59 0.76 – 8.81 0.128
Tercile 3 vs. 1 4.37 1.31 – 14.57 0.016 2.57 0.52 – 12.56 0.245
GAL POST Log Continuous 2.12 1.11 – 4.02 0.022 2.11 0.99 – 4.55 0.054
Above Median vs. Below 1.90 0.74 – 4.88 0.183 1.98 0.73 – 5.38 0.179
Tercile 2 vs. 1 6.27 1.61 – 24.44 0.008 6.17 1.50 – 25.43 0.012
Tercile 3 vs. 1 3.97 0.99 – 15.88 0.051 4.07 0.96 – 17.17 0.056
ST2 POST Log Continuous 2.26 1.37 – 3.72 0.001 1.99 1.03 – 3.86 0.042
Above Median vs. Below 3.96 1.52 – 10.31 0.005 2.84 0.90 – 8.91 0.074
Tercile 2 vs. 1 2.16 0.65 – 7.22 0.212 1.69 0.48 – 6.03 0.412
Tercile 3 vs. 1 7.01 2.10 – 23.45 0.002 4.98 1.06 – 23.32 0.042