1. The impact of sex and age on neurological outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with targeted temperature management
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Sang Hoon Oh, Kyu Nam Park, Jeeyong Lim, Seung Pill Choi, Joo Suk Oh, In Soo Cho, Byung Kook Lee, Yong Hwan Kim, Young-Min Kim, Han Joon Kim, Chun Song Youn, Soo Hyun Kim, and On behalf of the Korean Hypothermia Network Investigators
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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest ,Sex ,Age groups ,Induced hypothermia ,Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid ,RC86-88.9 - Abstract
Abstract Background There are conflicting data regarding sex-based differences in the outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, and whether the specific sex advantage is age-specific remains unclear. We assessed the impact of the interactions between sex and age on the neurological outcomes of OHCA patients receiving targeted temperature management (TTM). Methods Data collected from 2007 to 2012 for a multicenter, registry-based study of the Korean Hypothermia Network were analyzed. We used a multivariate logistic regression model with an interaction term (age × sex) as the final model for the outcomes. To evaluate the association between sex and outcome in specific age groups, all patients were divided into specific age subgroups, and the adjusted ORs and 95% CIs of good neurological outcomes for males were calculated for each age group. Finally, the ORs of a good neurological outcome for the specific age groups compared with the 50- to 59-year-old group were calculated for both sexes. Results In the interaction analysis, age was a negative prognostic factor (OR, 0.95 [95% CI, 0.93-0.98]), whereas sex was not associated with neurological outcomes (OR, 3.74 [95% CI, 0.85–16.35]), and reproductive age in females (age,
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- 2017
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