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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Card Fail. 2021 Oct;27(10):1073–1081. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.08.014

Table 1:

Baseline characteristics by CS Type

n (%) unless otherwise noted De Novo HF-CS
N=370
Acute-on-Chronic HF-
CS N=1035
P-value* AMI-CS
N=688
Demographics
Age, median (25th-75th), y 61.0 (50.0-70.0) 62.0 (53.0-71.0) 0.11 67.0 (58.0-76.0)
Female sex 138 (37.3%) 326 (31.5%) 0.04 223 (32.4%)
Race/Ethnicity 0.41
White 227 (61.4%) 605 (58.5%) 433 (62.9%)
Black 84 (22.7%) 274 (26.5%) 78 (11.3%)
Other 59 (15.9%) 156 (15.1%) 177 (25.7%)
BMI, median (25th-75th), kg/m 2 27.8 (24.0-32.1) 27.5 (23.4-32.1) 0.76 27.8 (24.4-31.6)
Comorbidities
Current Smoker 66 (17.8%) 115 (11.3%) <0.01 158 (23.0%)
Diabetes mellitus 102 (27.6%) 388 (37.5%) <0.01 311 (45.2%)
Hypertension 181 (48.9%) 573 (55.4%) 0.03 474 (68.9%)
Coronary artery disease 97 (26.2%) 449 (43.4%) <0.01 258 (37.5%)
Cerebrovascular disease 22 (5.9%) 111 (10.7%) 0.01 63 (9.2%)
Peripheral artery disease 22 (5.9%) 88 (8.5%) 0.12 71 (10.3%)
Active cancer 35 (9.5%) 60 (5.8%) 0.02 44 (6.4%)
Atrial fibrillation 64 (17.3%) 444 (42.9%) <0.01 80 (11.6%)
Ventricular arrhythmia 14 (3.8%) 184 (17.8%) <0.01 19 (2.8%)
Severe valvular disease 28 (7.6%) 222 (21.4%) <0.01 40 (5.8%)
Pulmonary hypertension 29 (7.8%) 131 (12.7%) 0.01 11 (1.6%)
Congenital heart disease 11 (3.0%) 27 (2.6%) 0.71 5 (0.7%)
Chronic kidney disease 50 (13.5%) 433 (41.8%) <0.01 130 (18.9%)
On dialysis 10 (20.0%) 43 (9.9%) 0.03 29 (22.3%)
Pulmonary disease 47 (12.7%) 181 (17.5%) 0.03 75 (10.9%)
Liver disease 5 (1.4%) 49 (4.7%) <0.01 9 (1.3%)
Shock Presentation
Presentation LVEF <0.01
<20% 145 (39.2%) 518 (50.1%) 152 (22.1%)
20-<30% 70 (18.9%) 285 (27.6%) 189 (27.5%)
30-<40% 44 (11.9%) 88 (8.5%) 118 (17.2%)
40-<50% 24 (6.5%) 28 (2.7%) 84 (12.2%)
≥50% 68 (18.4%) 73 (7.1%) 79 (11.5%)
Unknown 19 (5.1%) 43 (4.2%) 66 (9.6%)
*

P-value indicates the comparison between de novo HF-CS and acute-on-chronic HF-CS

LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction; ED= emergency department; HF-CS = Heart failure associated cardiogenic shock; AMI-CS = acute myocardial infarction related cardiogenic shock