Racial, ethnic and sex disparity in acute heart failure patients with COVID-19: A nationwide analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with acute heart failure (AHF) exacerbation are susceptible to complications in the setting of COVID-19 infection. Data regarding the racial/ethnic and sex disparities in patients with AHF and COVID-19 remains limited.

Objective

We aim to evaluate the impact of race, ethnicity, and sex on the in-hospital outcomes of AHF with COVID-19 infection using the data from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS).

Methods

We extracted data from the NIS (2020) by using ICD-10-CM to identify all hospitalizations with a diagnosis of AHF and COVID-19 in the year 2020. The associations between sex, race/ethnicity, and outcomes were examined using a multivariable logistic regression model.

Results

We identified a total of 158,530 weighted AHF hospitalizations wi

SUBMITTER: Hashem A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11327804 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature