Long-term prognostic impact of in-hospital serum albumin concentration changes in patients hospitalised for heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malnutrition influences prognosis in patients with heart failure, but current nutritional evaluation methods are excessively complex for routine clinical use. The role of the serum albumin concentration, a widely used surrogate marker, in acute heart failure remains unclear. We assessed whether changes in serum albumin during heart failure hospitalisation can serve as a prognostic marker.

Methods

Among 14 847 patients in a nationwide heart failure registry in 2013, 5836 eligible patients (mean age: 77.7 years, 51.2% men) were categorised into two groups: the albumin-increase group (n=2048) and the no-albumin-increase group (n=3788). The incidences of primary (all-cause mortality) and secondary (a composite of cardiovascular death and rehospitalisation for worsenin

SUBMITTER: Fukino K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12742107 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature