Clinical Study

Association between Preoperative Plasma sRAGE Levels and Recovery from Cardiac Surgery

Table 3

Binary logistic regression analysis of hospital length of stay with patient characteristics, operative variables, and postoperative outcomesa.

Hospital stay > median (8.94 days)Univariate analysis
Odds ratio (95% CI)
Multivariate analysis
Odds ratio (95% CI)
No meanYes mean

Age 66.7 71.3 1.0 (1.0-1.0) 0.016 a1.1 (1.0-1.1) 0.024 b
Ischaemic time81.398.21.0 (1.0-1.0) 1.0 (1.0-1.1)0.100
CPB time110.2128.01.0 (1.0-1.0) 1.0 (1.0-1.0)0.422
Log Creatinine2.02.08.0 (0.4–169.3)0.182
Log BMI1.421.420.9 (0.0–102.1)0.974
Log EuroSCORE0.740.761.5 (0.3–7.3)0.609
Log sRAGE preop −0.37 −0.27 18.3 (4.2–80.2) 0.000 a25.4 (1.3–483.6) 0.032 b
Log sRAGE postop0.360.4012.1 (2.7–54.2) 2.9 (0.1–66.5)0.500
Log S100A8/9 preop−0.70−0.154.6 (0.9–24.0)0.0682.4 (0.3–18.6)0.407
Log S100A8/9 postop0.160.323.7 (0.5–25.5)0.181

CPB: cardiopulmonary bypass; BMI: body mass index; and .
Significant relationship following univariate analysis.
Significant relationship following multivariate analysis.