Hazard Ratios for the association between sST2 quartiles and all-cause death or cardiac transplantation according to follow-up time.

(A) 1 month; (B) 3 month; (C) 6 month; (D) 1 year; (E) 2 year; and (F) 3 year. Multivariable Cox regression analyses were performed to obtain hazard ratios. Patients in the lowest quartiles were used as reference. Patients with the highest quartiles showed significant hazard ratio for all-cause death or cardiac transplantation in comparison with the patients with the first quartile after adjustment for clinical risk factors (all P value <0.001).