CD14 and hydrops fetalis: By contrast, when considering absolute cell count, the intermediate (CD14++/CD16+) monocyte subset showed detrimental association with all-cause death and the composite end-point and showed borderline significance with HF-related hospitalization, while the non-classical (CD14+/CD16++) subset showed protective association with all-cause death and borderline significance with the composite end-point in the univariable analyses (Table 3).