Low serum cholesterol level as a risk factor for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to identify the association between low serum total cholesterol levels and the risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

Methods

This case-control study was performed using datasets from the Cardiac Arrest Pursuit Trial with Unique Registration and Epidemiologic Surveillance (CAPTURES) project and the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). Cases were defined as emergency medical service-treated adult patients who experienced OHCA with a presumed cardiac etiology from the CAPTURES project dataset. Four controls from the KNHANES dataset were matched to each case based on age, sex, and county. Multivariable conditional logistic regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the effect of total cholesterol levels on OHCA.

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SUBMITTER: Yang JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8743677 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature