Predictors of in-hospital mortality in coronary artery dissection: Findings from the National Inpatient Sample 2009–2010

Abstract

(OR 5.86, p < 0.001) predicted higher mortality, while hyperlipidemia (OR 0.26, p < 0.001) and CAD (OR 0.31, p = 0.001) predicted lower mortality in multivariate analysis. Conclusions: Our study demonstrated that CD was more prevalent in men but women had higher mortality than men. Age, heart failure and ventricular arrhythmias were independent predictors of increased mortality but hyperlipidemia CAD predicted lower mortality in patients with CD. (Cardiol J 2015; 22, 2: 135-140)

The Contribution of Tobacco Use to High Health Care Utilization and Medical Costs in Peripheral Artery Disease

“…For simplicity, we use the terms "tobacco use" and "smoking" interchangeably. In the total PAD cohort, smoking was defined in medical claims using a combination of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT-4) codes (21)(22)(23).…”

The Association Between Hyperlipidemia and In-Hospital Outcomes in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

“…10,11 Previous studies have found that HLD was prevalent in TCM patients [12][13][14] -a study by Summers et al investigating the risk factors of TCM found that 52% of TCM patients had HLD. 12 In studying HLD's associations with in-hospital outcomes of cardiovascular disease, [15][16][17] findings counterintuitively suggest that low serum cholesterol level has a negative association with short-term outcomes. In Reddy et al's study, lower levels of LDL-C were associated with a higher in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction.…”

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection in cardiac sarcoidosis

“…In a recent study of 326 patients with ACS, SCAD accounted for 4% of ACS [6], but in younger females the prevalence of SCAD can be as high as 35% [1]. Although the detection rate of SCAD has increased in the last decade given increased awareness and improved endovascular imaging techniques, namely, intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography [6], SCAD is likely still underdiagnosed due to misinterpreting intramural hematoma as spasm or atherosclerotic plaque during angiography and misdiagnosing young female’s chest pain as non-cardiac [3].…”