Raised inflammatory markers as a predictor of one-year mortality: a cohort study in primary care in the UK using electronic health record data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Identification of patients at increased mortality risk is important in the context of increasing multimorbidity and an ageing population, to help facilitate the planning and delivery of services. The aim of this study was to examine 1-year all-cause mortality in a cohort of primary care patients in whom inflammatory markers including C reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and plasma viscosity (PV), had been tested.

Design

Observational cohort study using general practitioner Electronic Health Records from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, with linkage to Office for National Statistics (ONS) Death Registry.

Setting

UK Primary Care.

Participants

159 325 patients with inflammatory marker tests done in 2014 and 39 928 age,

SUBMITTER: Watson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7566728 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature