Evaluation of Neurologic and Psychiatric Outcomes After Hospital Discharge Among Adult Survivors of Cardiac Arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Long-term risks of neurologic and psychiatric disease after cardiac arrest are largely unknown.

Objective

To examine the short-term and long-term risks of common neurologic outcomes (stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson disease, and dementia) and psychiatric outcomes (depression and anxiety) in patients after hospitalization for cardiac arrest.

Design, setting, and participants

This nationwide population-based cohort study with 21 years of follow-up included data on 250 838 adults from all Danish hospitals between January 1, 1996, and December 31, 2016. Danish medical registries were used to identify all patients with a first-time diagnosis of cardiac arrest and 2 matched comparison cohorts. The first comparison cohort included patients with a first-time diagnosis o

SUBMITTER: Secher N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9157268 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature