In-hospital and long-term mortality for acute heart failure: analysis at the time of admission to the emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Acute heart failure (AHF) leads to a drastic increase in mortality and rehospitalization. The aim of the study was to identify prognostic variables in a real-life population of AHF patients admitted to the emergency department with acute shortness of breath.

Methods and results

We evaluated potential predictors of mortality in 728 consecutive patients admitted to the emergency department with AHF. Possible predictors of all-cause and cardiovascular (CV) mortality were investigated by Cox and Fine and Gray models at multivariable analysis. Among the 728 patients, 256 died during the entire follow-up, 142 of these due to CV cause. The 1 year mortality rate was 20%, with the highest risk of death during the index hospitalization (with 8% estimate in-hospital mortality at 3

SUBMITTER: Lombardi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7524058 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature