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Table 3 Cox Proportional Hazards for cardiac death among patients with cancer. Confidence: p < 0.0001, Concordance index: 0.74 for the Multivariate analysis

From: Differential cardiac impacts of hematological malignancies and solid tumors: a histopathological and biomarker study

 

Univariate

Multivariate

HR

CI

p Value

HR

CI

p Value

Demographics

 Age (n = 111)

1.00

0.98 – 1.03

0.88

   

 Black vs White (n = 111)

1.14

0.48 – 2.71

0.77

   

 Female (n = 111)

1.07

0.60 – 1.89

0.82

   

 BMI (n = 93)

1.04

1.01 – 1.07

0.003

1.06

1.03 – 1.1

< 0.001

 Tobacco use (n = 104)

1.36

0.74 – 2.51

0.32

   

Cardiac biomarkers

 Ejection fraction (n = 71)

0.99

0.96 – 1.01

0.21

   

 Systolic blood pressure (n = 62)

0.99

0.97 – 1.02

0.51

   

 Diastolic blood pressure (n = 62)

0.97

0.94 – 1.0

0.022

0.97

0.94 – 1.0

0.030

 B-type natriuretic peptide (n = 82)

1.00

1.0 – 1.0

0.73

   

 Troponin I (n = 83)

1.05

1.02 – 1.09

0.002

1.07

1.02 – 1.11

0.002

 Creatine-kinase MB (n = 65)

1.00

1.0 – 1.02

0.067

   

 Hemoglobin (n = 94)

1.14

0.96 – 1.35

0.14

   

Post-mortem parameters

Atherosclerosis (n = 101)

2.05

1.15 – 3.63

0.014

   

Heart weight (n = 97)

1.00

1.0 – 1.01

0.018

   

Left ventricle thickness (n = 98)

2.35

0.98 – 5.64

0.056

   

Right ventricle thickness (n = 98)

4.09

1.53 – 10.99

0.005

3.68

1.32 – 10.29

0.013

Septal wall thickness (n = 49)

1.07

0.29 – 3.94

0.92

   

Left ventricle mass (n = 33)

0.99

0.99 – 1.01

0.53

   

Zonal fibrosis (n = 50)

1.1

0.77 – 1.57

0.60

   

Myocardial morphology

Interstitial fibrosis (n = 42)

3.00

0.01 – 1164.84

0.72

   

Cardiomyocyte nuclei number (n = 45)

0.99

0.96 – 1.02

0.59

   

Cardiomyocyte minor axis length (n = 41)

0.85

0.7 – 1.01

0.071

   

Nuclear atypia (n = 50)

1.78

0.89 – 3.55

0.10

   

Lipofuscin deposition (n = 50)

0.43

0.18 – 1.02

0.055

   

Myocyte apposition (n = 50)

0.87

0.29 – 2.61

0.80

   

Cancer therapy

 Chemotherapy (n = 63)

Class 1

0.71

0.37 – 1.36

0.30

   

Class 2

0.89

0.45 – 1.78

0.75

   

Class 3

0.92

0.5 – 1.7

0.79

   

Class 4

0.44

0.2 – 1.93

0.033

0.37

0.14 – 0.96

0.041

Class 5

0.41

0.18 – 0.98

0.045

   

Class 6

0.48

0.19 – 1.21

0.12

   

Class 7

0.75

0.33 – 1.68

0.48

   

Radiotherapy (n = 111)

0.33

0.17 – 0.64

0.001

   

Cell biomarkers

 BCL1 (n = 4)

0.24

0.03 – 1.76

0.16

   

 CD3 (n = 29)

2.93

0.4 – 21.32

0.29

   

 CD5 (n = 8)

0.23

0.04 – 1.52

0.13

   

 CD10 (n = 6)

0.42

0.06 – 2.87

0.38

   

 CD21 (n = 2)

3.63

0.06 – 217.06

0.54

   

 CD23 (n = 7)

1.22

0.29 – 5.04

0.79

   

 CD30 (n = 6)

0.38

0.06 – 2.4

0.31

   

 C-MYC (n = 5)

0.36

0.09 – 1.52

0.16

   

 MUM1 (n = 7)

0.55

0.13 – 2.27

0.41

   

 Blast % (n = 17)

0.99

0.94 – 1.04

0.69

   

 Lysozyme (n = 12)

0.55

0.13 – 2.32

0.41

   

 MPO/MPX (n = 23)

0.56

0.08 – 4.09

0.57

   

 TdT (n = 12)

0.23

0.07 – 0.76

0.016

   

 PAX5 (n = 23)

0.48

0.19 – 1.24

0.13

   
  1. The analysis includes a total of 111 patients with known causes of death, of which 48 experienced a cardiac death event