Table 4 Threshold effect analysis of NAR and 90-day mortality using piece-wise linear regression.

From: Prognostic value of neutrophil count to albumin ratio in patients with decompensated cirrhosis

Inflection Point of NAR

Crude model

Adjusted model

HR (95%CI)

P-value

HR (95%CI)

P-value

 < 0.93

75.34 (8.57, 662.45)

 < 0.001

74.06 (5.34, 1027.98)

0.001

 ≥ 0.93

1.55 (1.27, 1.89)

 < 0.001

1.61 (1.27, 2.05)

 < 0.001

  1. Crude model: not adjusted for other covariates.
  2. Adjusted Model: adjusted for sex, Hepatic encephalopathy, ascites, HBV, alcohol, CRP, PLT, ALT, AST, serum sodium, TB and INR.
  3. CI confidence interval, ALT alanine transaminase, AST aspartate aminotransferase, CRP c-reactive protein, HBV hepatitis B virus, INR International normalized ratio, PLT platelets, TB total bilirubin, NAR neutrophil count to albumin ratio.
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