ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2017
Anemia is a mortality prognostic factor in patients initially hospitalized for acute heart failure.
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- Impact of anemia on clinical outcomes in patients with acute heart failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical cardiology · 2024Pooled it
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- Exploring Mortality and Prognostic Factors of Heart Failure with In-Hospital and Emergency Patients by Electronic Medical Records: A Machine Learning Approach.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- Mortality rate and factors associated with in-hospital mortality in patients hospitalized with pulmonary embolism in Germany.Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis · 2024Article
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- Clusters of Comorbidities in the Short-Term Prognosis of Acute Heart Failure among Elderly Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Association of On-Admission Anemia With 1-Year Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure: Results From the HERO Study.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- The Interplay between Anticholinergic Burden and Anemia in Relation to 1-Year Mortality among Older Patients Discharged from Acute Care Hospitals.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Red blood cell distribution width and serum CA-125 level as prognostic markers in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.The Journal of international medical research · 2021Article
- Anemia and iron deficiency in heart failure: extending evidences from chronic to acute setting.Internal and emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Extremely Old Patients Hospitalized in Internal Medicine: What about Their Anemia?Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Association between anemia and outcome in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure syndromes: findings from Beijing Acute Heart Failure Registry (Beijing AHF Registry).Internal and emergency medicine · 2021Observational
- Sparing unnecessary transfusions through patient blood management: time for application also in internal and emergency medicine.Internal and emergency medicine · 2020Article
- One-Year Mortality Risk Stratification in Patients Hospitalized for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Construction of TSOC-HFrEF Risk Scoring Model.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2020Article
- Prevalence and Causes of Anemia in Hospitalized Patients: Impact on Diseases Outcome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Ancestry-specific associations identified in genome-wide combined-phenotype study of red blood cell traits emphasize benefits of diversity in genomics.BMC genomics · 2020Article
- Red cell distribution width predicts mid-term prognosis in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure: the RDW in Acute Heart Failure (RE-AHF) study.Internal and emergency medicine · 2019Observational
- Anemia in heart failure - from guidelines to controversies and challenges.Anatolian journal of cardiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Anemia is a risk factor related to morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic heart failure (HF). Less is known about its influence in patients in an early stage of HF. Our aim is to investigate the prognostic role of anemia in patients initially hospitalized for acute HF. We reviewed all consecutive patients admitted within a 18-month period with a main diagnosis of acute HF. We collected demographic, clinical and treatment data. Anemia is defined as Hemoglobin <12/13 g/dL upon admission in female/male patients, respectively. 719 patients were included (55.5% female), with a mean age of 78.7 ± 9 years. Anemia was present in 59.6% of patients upon admission, with a mean Hb of 10.4 ± 1.4 g/dL. Multivariate analysis confirms the relationship between the presence of anemia and older age, a previous diagnostic history of diabetes, and the presence of chronic kidney disease. In-hospital mortality is similar for anemic and non-anemic patients (6.8 vs 3.8%, p = n.s.) However, the difference is significant when one-year mortality is evaluated (31% in anemic patients vs 19% in non-anemic patients, p < 0.001). Cox regression analysis confirms the association between anemia and higher risk of one-year mortality, as well as with older age and a higher Charlson comorbidity index. Our study confirms that the presence of anemia is an independent factor for mid-term (1-year) mortality even in patients experiencing a first admission due to acute HF.
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