Sex-specific risks of death in patients hospitalized for hyponatremia: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Several studies have reported an association between hyponatremia and lethality. However, it remains elusive whether hyponatremia independently contributes to lethality. The aim of the study was to investigate associations between hyponatremia and lethality and differences in lethality between men and women hospitalized due to hyponatremia.

Methods

Four registries were utilized in this population-based retrospective study: The National Patient Registry, the Cause of Death Register, the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register and the Total Population Register (NPR) from which the controls were sampled. All hospitalized patients with a first-ever principal ICD10 diagnosis of hyponatremia or syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion in the NPR between 1 October 2005 and 31 Decem

SUBMITTER: Mannheimer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887836 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature