Red cell distribution width is associated with short-term mortality in critically ill patients with heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

There is limited evidence for the correlation between short-term mortality and red cell distribution width (RDW) in critical patients with heart failure. Herein, a retrospective cohort study was conducted to investigate whether RDW was independently associated with short-term mortality in critically ill patients with heart failure.

Methods and results

As a retrospective cohort study, it involved a total of 9465 patients with heart failure from the MIMIC-IV database. The target-dependent and independent variables were in-hospital mortality, 90 day mortality and RDW measured at baseline, respectively. The relationship between all-cause death and baseline RDW in hospital and after 90 days of admission to ICU was evaluated by using the Kaplan-Meier plot and Cox proportional

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9715821 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature