Baseline characteristics
| Demographic and clinical variables, n=262 | |
| Age (years) | 50.2±12.8 |
| Sex, n (%) | |
| Female | 65 (24.8) |
| Male | 197 (75.2) |
| Aetiology, n (%) | |
| Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) | 117 (44.7) |
| Familial DCM | 58 (22.1) |
| Inflammatory and/or viral DCM | 87 (33.2) |
| New York Heart Association class, n (%) | |
| I | 29 (11.1) |
| II | 105 (40.1) |
| III | 122 (46.6) |
| IV | 6 (2.3) |
| Diabetes mellitus, n (%) | 40 (15.3) |
| Body mass index (kg/m2) | 27.5±4.5 |
| QRS duration (ms) | 118.6±32.2 |
| Left ventricular ejection fraction (%) | 30±8.4 |
| Left ventricular end diastolic diameter (mm) | 67.9±7.9 |
| Biochemical variables | |
| C-reactive protein (mg/L) | 11.2±18.5 |
| Leucocytes (g/L) | 7.9±2.2 |
| Creatinine (mg/dL) | 1.1±0.5 |
| B-type natriuretic peptide (pg/mL)* | 402.9±470.9 |
| Biomarker (ng/mL) | |
| sST2 | 12.8±8.8 |
| Galectin-3 | 4.8±2.3 |
Categorical variables are n (%), continuous variables are mean±SD.
*n=146.