Research Article
Congestive Heart Failure Patients’ Pulse Rate Progression and Time to Death at Debre Tabor Referral Hospital, Ethiopia
Table 1
Baseline categorical variable characteristics for CHF patients with DTRH from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019.
| No. | Variable | Categories | Censored (%) | Observed event (%) | Total (%) |
| 1 | Sex | Male | 66 (24.4) | 34 (12.5) | 100 (36.9) | Female | 149 (55.0) | 22 (8.1) | 171 (63.1) | 2 | Residence | Rural | 64 (23.6) | 21 (7.7) | 85 (31.4) | Urban | 151 (55.7) | 35 (12.9) | 186 (68.6) | 3 | Type of CHF patients | Left ventricular | 61 (22.5) | 36 (13.3) | 97 (35.8) | Right ventricular | 81 (29.9) | 13 (4.8) | 94 (34.7) | Biventricular | 73 (26.9) | 7 (2.6) | 80 (29.5) | 4 | New York Heart Association class of CHF patients | Class II | 63 (23.2 | 2 (0.7) | 65 (24.0 | Class III | 78 (28.8) | 20 (7.4) | 98 (36.2) | Class IV | 74 (27.3) | 34 (12.4) | 108 (39.9) | 5 | Presence of hypertension | Yes | 47 (17.3) | 7 (2.6) | 54 (19.9) | No | 168 (62.0) | 49 (18.1) | 217 (80.1) | 6 | Presence of pneumonia | Yes | 32 (11.9) | 8 (3.0) | 40 (14.8) | No | 182 (67.4) | 48 (17.8) | 230 (85.2) | 7 | Presence of diabetes mellitus | Yes | 40 (14.8) | 29 (10.7) | 69 (25.5) | No | 175 (64.6) | 27 (10.0) | 202 (74.5) | 8 | Presence of chronic kidney disease | Yes | 22 (8.1) | 6 (2.2) | 28 (10.3) | No | 193 (71.2) | 50 (18.5) | 243 (89.7) | 9 | Presence of tuberculosis | Yes | 42 (15.5) | 41 (15.1) | 83 (30.6) | No | 173 (63.8) | 15 (5.5) | 188 (69.4) | 10 | Etiology of heart failure | VHD | 70 (25.8) | 20 (7.4) | 90 (33.2) | HHD | 44 (16.2) | 9 (3.3) | 53 (19.6) | IHD | 27 (10.0) | 5 (1.8) | 32 (11.8) | Dilated cardiomyopathy | 51 (18.8) | 13 (4.8) | 64 (23.6) | Other etiologies | 23 (8.5) | 9 (3.3) | 32 (11.8) | 12 | Status of survival time of the study | Censored | 215 (79.3) | 271 (100.0%) | | Event (death) | 56 (20.7) | | |
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VHD = valvular heart disease, HHD = hypertensive heart disease, and IHD = ischemic heart disease.
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