Impact of post-sepsis cardiovascular complications on mortality in sepsis survivors: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It remains unclear whether sepsis-related cardiovascular complications have an adverse impact on survival independent of pre-existing comorbidities. To investigate the survival impact of post-sepsis cardiovascular complications among sepsis survivors, we conducted a population-based study using the National Health Insurance Database of Taiwan.

Methods

We identified sepsis patients from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan using ICD-9-CM codes involving infection and organ dysfunction between 2000 and 2011. Post-sepsis incident myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke were ascertained by ICD-9-CM codes and antiplatelet treatment. We constructed a non-sepsis comparison cohort using propensity score matching to ascertain the association between seps

SUBMITTER: Wu MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720410 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature