Epidemiology and mortality among dialysis patients with acute coronary syndrome: Taiwan National Cohort Study

Epidemiologic features and long-term outcome of dialysis patients with infective endocarditis in Taiwan

“…In our study, it was 23.5%, which was higher than the 18% rate in the general population [14]. The mortality of IE was even higher than that of acute coronary syndrome (9.7%) [10]. Shroff et al [8] analyzed the USRDS database from 1997 to 2000 and also reported a 23.5% in-hospital mortality rate, but lower long-term survival rates at 1 year = 38%, 2 years = 25%, and 3 years = 18%.…”

“…A recent Taiwan national IE study [10] showed that male gender, older age, DM, heart failure, neurological complications, renal insufficiency, respiratory failure, shock, and Staphylococcus species as the causative microorganism were independent predictors of in-hospital mortality. Shroff et al [8] reported that the most powerful independent predictors of all-cause mortality were age and DM and CVA as a comorbid condition.…”

“…The NHIRD covers nearly all (99%) inpatient and outpatient medical benefit claims for Taiwan's 23.3 million residents, is one of the largest and most comprehensive databases in the world, and has been used extensively in various studies [10][11][12][13][14]. Patient identification numbers, gender, birthdate, dates of admission and discharge, medical institutions providing the services, the ICD-9-CM diagnostic and procedure codes (up to five each), and outcomes are encrypted.…”

“…The accuracy of the diagnoses of major disease in the NHIRD has been validated [15,16]. In addition, the methods of identifying these comorbidities have been extensively employed in various studies using the Taiwan NHIRD as a data source, and many articles based on these studies have been published [10][11][12][13][14].…”

Prevalência da doença periodontal em pacientes com doença renal crônica em hemodiálise

“…A relação entre a DRC e a doença cardiovascular (DCV) tem sido repetitivamente demonstrada por grandes estudos epidemiológicos (Keith et al, 2004;Go et al, 2008;Chou et al, 2013). A literatura enfatiza que há agravamento de fatores de risco para a DCV à medida que a DRC evolui para o estágio terminal (Elsayed et al, 2007;Gansevoort et al, 2013), aumentando assim a possibilidade de danos cardiovasculares (Lelongt;Ronco , 2002).…”