Predictors of life-threatening events in adult patients with left ventricular noncompaction

Table 3 Predictors of non-sustained and sustained ventricular tachycardia in patients with left ventricular noncompaction (receiver operating characteristic-analysis)

Variable	AUC	Asymptotic significance	Asymptotic 95%CI
			Lower limit	Upper limit
NYHA CHF class	0.630	0.013	0.532	0.727
Poor R wave progression	0.627	0.021	0.522	0.732
Low QRS voltage	0.587	0.110	0.482	0.692
QRS duration	0.678	0.001	0.579	0.777
Myocarditis	0.653	0.003	0.556	0.750
LVEF	0.654	0.003	0.558	0.751
LVEDD	0.608	0.039	0.508	0.709
SPAP	0.684	0.003	0.573	0.795

NYHA: New York Heart Association; CHF: Chronic heart failure; LVEF: Left ventricular ejection fraction; LVEDD: Left ventricular end diastolic diameter; SPAP: Systolic pulmonary artery pressure; AUC: Area under the curve; CI: Confidence interval.