Table 3: Multivariate analysis (for predictors P<0.10).

Outcomes/Predictors Ratios 95% confidence interval P-value
Operative mortality
Cardiopulmonary bypass time (per minute) 1.02 1.00-1.04 0.044
Mortality during follow-up
Age (per year) 1.11 1.02-1.20 0.018
Critical pre-operative state 2.85 0.904-8.97 0.074
Composite morbidity
Congestive heart failure 3.03 1.05-8.72 0.040
Previous stroke 8.87 0.849-92.8 0.068
Ventilation>24 hours
Pulmonary hypertension (per category) 2.19 0.959-5.02 0.063
Return to theatre
Congestive heart failure 5.93 0.975-36.0 0.053
Previous cardiac surgery 11.3 1.28-99.4 0.029

All ratios are odds ratios, except hazards ratios for predictors of mortality during follow-up.