Research Article

Blood Urea Nitrogen for Short-Term Prognosis in Patients with Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction

Table 4

Comparison in predicting 30-day mortality between the standard model and the new model.

30-day mortality
Patients with eventsPatients without events
New modelNew model

Standard<20%20–40%>40%AllStandard<20%20–40%>40%All
<20%4015<20%472150
20–40%21262020–40%1018432
>40%107980>40%082331
All71286105All572828113
NRI+ = 0.038NRI- = 0.097
NRI [95%CI]0.1354 [0.0323–0.2385]p = 0.010
IDI [95%CI]0.0526 [0.0158–0.0894]p = 0.005

NRI: net reclassification improvement, IDI: integrated discrimination improvement. The NRI was calculated using 20% and 40% as the thresholds to define the risk grade of 30-day mortality.