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Etiologies and predictors of readmission among obese and morbidly obese patients admitted with heart failure
- Source :
- Heart failure reviews. 26(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The relationship between severity of obesity and outcomes in heart failure (HF) has long been under debate. We studied index HF admissions from the 2013–14 National Readmission Database. Admissions were separated into three weight-based categories: non-obese (Non-Ob), obese (Ob), and morbidly obese (Morbid-Ob) to analyze hospital mortality and readmission at 30 days and 6 months. We investigated etiologies and predictors of 30-day readmission among these weight categories. We studied a total of 578,213 patients of whom 3.0% died during index hospitalization (Non-Ob 3.3% vs. Ob 1.9% vs. Morbid-Ob 1.9%; p
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Post discharge
Aftercare
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Morbidly obese
Patient Readmission
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Internal medicine
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Retrospective Studies
Heart Failure
business.industry
Odds ratio
medicine.disease
Obesity
Confidence interval
Patient Discharge
Obesity, Morbid
Hospitalization
Heart failure
Etiology
Female
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Index hospitalization
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15737322
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Heart failure reviews
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3d103d6d814026ca1f417c9380cef1f6