Association between blood urea nitrogen to serum albumin ratio and in-hospital mortality in critical patients with diabetic ketoacidosis: a retrospective analysis of the eICU database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to investigate the association between blood urea nitrogen to serum albumin ratio (BAR) and the risk of in-hospital mortality in patients with diabetic ketoacidosis.

Methods

A total of 3,962 diabetic ketoacidosis patients from the eICU Collaborative Research Database were included in this analysis. The primary outcome was in-hospital death.

Results

Over a median length of hospital stay of 3.1 days, 86 in-hospital deaths were identified. One unit increase in LnBAR was positively associated with the risk of in-hospital death (hazard ratio [HR], 1.82 [95% CI, 1.42-2.34]). Furthermore, a nonlinear, consistently increasing correlation between elevated BAR and in-hospital mortality was observed (P for trend =0.005 after multiple-adjusted). When B

SUBMITTER: Chen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11236567 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature