The impact of statin use on short-term and long-term mortality in patients with heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heart failure (HF) is a complex disorder that has an association with increased morbidity and mortality rates globally. The association of statin use with mortality rate in individuals with HF remains unclear.

Objectives

To examine the association of statin use with the short-term and long-term all-cause mortality rate in critically ill individuals with HF.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort analysis based on the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-IV database. The critically ill people with HF were assigned to a statin group and a non-statin group according to whether they had been treated with statin or not during hospitalization. The Kaplan-Meier (KM) method and Cox proportional hazard models were adopted to explore the link betw

SUBMITTER: Zheng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11464369 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature