ArticleInternational journal of general medicine2021
Preoperative Glucose-to-Lymphocyte Ratio is an Independent Predictor for Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery in Patients in Intensive Care Unit.
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- Association between glucose to lymphocyte ratio and prognosis in patients with solid tumors.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Pooled it
- Association between the Glucose-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Mortality in Patients with Ischemic Stroke: Based on the MIMIC-IV Database.Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology · 2026Article
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- Association between Glucose/lymphocytes Ratio and Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with Myocardial Infarction without Diabetes Mellitus.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2025Article
- Association between glucose-to-lymphocyte ratio and long-term mortality among women after coronary artery bypass grafting: filling gaps in female.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Predictive value of hematologic indices on weaning from mechanical ventilation and 30-day mortality in patients with traumatic brain injury in an intensive care unit: A retrospective analysis of MIMIC-IV data.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Article
- Relationship between glucose to lymphocyte ratio and the first peritonitis episode in patients treated with peritoneal dialysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- GLR in Colorectal Cancers: An Easily Accessible Prognostic Marker.International journal of general medicine · 2024Article
- Better prognosis in surgical aortic valve replacement patients with lower red cell distribution width: A MIMIC-IV database study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Preoperative glucose-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts survival in cancer.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
- Malignant cancer may increase the risk of all-cause in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a multicenter retrospective study of two large public databases.Cardio-oncology (London, England) · 2023Article
- Predictive Value of the Transthoracic Echocardiography Index for Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Valve Surgery.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2022Article
- Association Between Serum Sodium and Long-Term Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with Comorbid Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Analysis from the MIMIC-IV Database.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2022Article
- Prognostic value of glucose to lymphocyte ratio for patients with renal cell carcinoma undergoing laparoscopic nephrectomy: A multi-institutional, propensity score matching cohort study.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Association between glucose-to-lymphocyte ratio and in-hospital mortality in intensive care patients with sepsis: A retrospective observational study based on Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Predictive Value of Platelet-to-Albumin Ratio (PAR) for the Cardiac-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Prognosis of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit.International journal of general medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe aimed to investigate the association between preoperative glucose-to-lymphocyte ratio (GLR) and cardiac surgery associated with acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).
methodsThe Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV (MIMIC-IV version 1.0) database was used to identify adults' patients who performed cardiac surgery during ICU stay. The primary outcome was the development of AKI based on the KDIGO criteria. Multivariable logistic regression was applied to investigate the association between GLR and clinical outcomes, and propensity score matching (PSM) and inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) were also used to validate our findings.
resultsThe optimal cut-off value for GLR was 1.28. Among the 7181 patients who conducted cardiac surgery, 2072 high-GLR group (≥1.28) patients and 2072 low-GLR group (<1.28) patients, had similar propensity scores were included in this study. After matching, the high-GLR group had a significantly higher incidence of AKI (odds ratio, OR, 3.28, 95% confidence index, 95% CI, 2.81-3.84, P <0.001) even after adjustment for confounding factors. Moreover, the performance of GLR was superior to that of SOFA scores and GLR plus clinical model could add more net benefit for CSA-AKI than clinical model alone.
conclusionPreoperative GLR could serve as a good predictor for CSA-AKI in patients in ICU.
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