Nonesterified Fatty Acids and Hospitalizations Among Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We sought to determine associations between total serum concentrations of nonesterified fatty acids (NEFAs) and incident total and cause-specific hospitalizations in a community-living cohort of older adults.

Methods

We included 4715 participants in the Cardiovascular Health Study who had fasting total serum NEFA measured at the 1992/1993 clinic visit and were followed for a median of 12 years. We identified all inpatient admissions requiring at least an overnight hospitalization and used primary diagnostic codes to categorize cause-specific hospitalizations. We used Cox proportional hazards regression models to determine associations with time-to-first hospitalization and Poisson regression for the rate ratios (RRs) of hospitalizations and days hospitalized.

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SUBMITTER: Ahiawodzi PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8489431 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature