The integrated diagnostics (ID) algorithm is an implantable device-based tool that collates data pertaining to heart rhythm, heart rate, intrathoracic fluid status, and activity, producing a risk score that correlates with 30-day risk of heart failure (HF) hospitalization. We sought to validate ...
An immediate, temporal risk of heart failure and arrhythmias after a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbation has been demonstrated, particularly in the first month post-exacerbation. However, the clinical profile of patients who develop heart failure (HF) or atrial fibrillation/flutter...
Survival curves were constructed with the use of the Kaplan-Meier method for the composite endpoint of all-cause death, hospitalization because of the exacerbation of heart failure, or appropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy for a spontaneous episode of ventricular tachycardia or...
To account for potential misdiagnosis of heart failure symptoms as OAD exacerbations, another sensitivity analysis that excluded any exacerbation events when patients were diagnosed with heart failure at any time during follow-up was also conducted. Subgroup Analysis Subgroup analysis was performed to ...
Forest plot of implementation effects (pre-post implementation analysis). Adjusted model included age, sex, and five clinically relevant comorbidities selected from the Charlson Comorbidity Index (heart failure, dementia, mild or severe liver disease, renal disease, and diabetes. Pre – pre-implementati...
Patients treated with low doses of orally administered steroids had a greater number of comorbidities, including diabetes, heart failure, anemia, and renal failure. When compared with those initially treated intravenously, they were less likely to receive early treatment with antibiotics, methylxanthine...
Patients with a diagnosis of COPD who were not prescribed with COPD medications within 1 year were excluded. We also enrolled patients with a diagnosis of GERD using ICD-9-CM codes 530.11 or 530.81. Patients with a diagnosis of GERD who did not undergo upper gastrointestinal endoscopy or 24-...
10 features describe the comorbidities of the COPD patients (Table 4). According to the correlation with COPD, we label pulmonary heart disease and bronchiectasis as the most critical factors, followed by hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease, and the remaining markers are the most ...
selected from the database. The definition of AECOPD was determined using the AECOPD ICD-9-CM code 491.21. For patients with multiple hospitalizations, only the first hospitalization was enrolled. The exclusion criteria included: age<18 years, length of ICU stay <48 h, or missing data >10%....
This debate is largely based upon data suggesting that up to 50 %of exacerbations are either viral or noninfectious i.e. nonbacterial (23, 24, 25, 26). Among the more common noninfectious causes are allergies, incomplete compliance to therapy and congestive heart failure (22, 23). ...