Differences in Sex and the Incidence and In-Hospital Mortality among People Admitted for Infective Endocarditis in Spain, 2016-2020.

ABSTRACT: (1) Background: A description of the trends and outcomes during hospitalization for infective endocarditis (IE) according to sex. (2) Methods: Using Spanish national hospital discharge data (2016−2020), we built Poisson regression models to compare the age-adjusted time trends for the incidence rate. We used propensity score matching (PSM) to compare the clinical characteristics and the in-hospital mortality (IHM) between men and women hospitalized with IE. (3) Results: We identified 10,459 hospitalizations for IE (33.26% women). The incidence of IE remained stable during this five-year period. The age-adjusted incidence of IE was two-fold higher among men vs. women (IRR = 2.08; 95%CI 2.0−2.17). Before PSM, women with IE were significantly older than men (70.25 vs. 66.24 years; p < 0.001)

SUBMITTER: De Miguel-Yanes JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9698698 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature