Figure 3.

Extended Kaplan–Meier curves. Although dilated cardiomyopathy patients with mid‐range ejection fraction at baseline globally exhibited a better long‐term prognosis in comparison with dilated cardiomyopathy patients with reduced ejection fraction at baseline, the outcome of dilated cardiomyopathy patients with mid‐range ejection fraction who experienced a worsening in their ejection fraction during follow‐up progressively approached and became worse than that of dilated cardiomyopathy patients with reduced ejection fraction at baseline. DCM indicates dilated cardiomyopathy; HR, hazard ratio; HTX, heart transplantation; mrEF, mid‐range ejection fraction; rEF, reduced ejection fraction