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)

VHD = valvular heart disease, HHD = hypertensive heart disease, and IHD = ischemic heart disease.