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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2019

Gender Differences in the Social Determinants of the Long-term Prognosis for Severely Decompensated Acute Heart Failure in Patients over 75 Years of Age.

Masato Matsushita, Akihiro Shirakabe, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Hirotake Okazaki, Yusaku Shibata, Hiroki Goda, Saori Uchiyama, Kenichi Tani, Kazutaka Kiuchi, Noritake Hata and 2 more

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Masato MatsushitaDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Akihiro ShirakabeDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Nobuaki KobayashiDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Hirotake OkazakiDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Yusaku ShibataDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Hiroki GodaDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Saori UchiyamaDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Kenichi TaniDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Kazutaka KiuchiDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Noritake HataDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Kuniya AsaiDivision of Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Japan.
Wataru ShimizuDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Japan.
Chiba Hokusou Hospital · JPNippon Medical School · JP

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Abstract

Objective The aim of present study was to elucidate the gender differences in social determinants among patients with acute heart failure (AHF). Methods A total of 1,048 AHF patients were enrolled, and the 508 AHF patients who were ≥75 years old and the 540 patients who were <75 years old were evaluated as the elderly and non-elderly cohorts, respectively. Participants who met one of the three marital status-, offspring-, and living status-related criteria were considered socially vulnerable, and subjects were thus classified into socially vulnerable and non-socially vulnerable groups by gender in both the non-elderly and elderly cohorts. Social vulnerability was significantly more common in the elderly cohort (n=246, 48.4%) than in the non-elderly cohort (n=197, 36.5%) and significantly more common in the elderly women (n=157, 69.4%) than in the elderly men (n=89, 31.5%). Kaplan-Meier curves showed that the survival rate of the socially vulnerable group was significantly poorer than that of the non-socially vulnerable group in the elderly male cohort (p=0.010). Social vulnerability was an independent predictor of the 1,000-day mortality in the elderly male cohort (hazard ratio: 1.942, 95% confidence interval: 1.102-3.422) but not in the elderly female cohort according to a multivariate analysis. Conclusion Social vulnerability was shown to be more common in elderly female AHF patients than in elderly men, although it was associated with a poor prognosis in elderly men. Reinforcing the social structure of elderly male AHF patients might help improve their prognosis.

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Social Determinants of HealthAcute DiseaseAgedAged, 80 and overAge FactorsCohort StudiesFemaleHeart FailureHumansJapanKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisProportional Hazards ModelsSex Factorsacute heart failure syndromeaging societyliving conditionmarital statusmortalitysocioeconomic status

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