A nonlinear relationship was detected between LDH and in-hospital mortality in AAD patients after adjusting for potential confounders (age, gender, BMI, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, atherosclerosis, smoking, symptom, SBP, DBP, WBC, Hb, ALT, AST, ALB, Cr, type of AAD (Stanford), and management), whose point was 557. Here, ALB is linked to Stroke.