Research Article

Triglyceride/High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio Is Associated with In-Hospital Mortality in Acute Type B Aortic Dissection

Table 4

The results of the two-piecewise linear model.

(%)OR (95% CI) value

Fitting model by standard linear regression523(100%)2.08 (1.32, 3.27)0.002
Fitting model by two-piecewise linear regression
 The inflection point of TG/HDL-c ratio
  ≤2.05421 (80.5%)3.17 (1.54, 6.57)0.001
  >2.05102 (19.5%)1.00 (0.80, 1.26)0.983
for the log-likelihood ratio test0.017

Abbreviations: CI: confidence interval; OR: odds ratio. Adjusted for gender, age, BMI, hypertension, smoking, atherosclerosis, WBC, PLT, Hb, ALT, AST, Cr, UA, and TnT.