The Prognostic Value of Serum Calcium Levels in Elderly Dilated Cardiomyopathy Patients.
Glob Heart
; 19(1): 25, 2024.
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| ID: mdl-38434155
ABSTRACT
Background:
It is unclear whether serum calcium on admission is associated with clinical outcomes in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). In this study, we conducted a retrospective study spanning a decade to investigate the prognostic value of baseline calcium in elderly patients with DCM.Methods:
A total of 1,089 consecutive elderly patients (age ≥60 years) diagnosed with DCM were retrospectively enrolled from January 2010 to December 2019. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to investigate the association of serum calcium with their clinical outcomes.Results:
In this study, the average age of the subjects was 68.36 ± 6.31 years. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed that serum calcium level had a great sensitivity and specificity for predicting in-hospital death, with an AUC of 0.732. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that patients with a serum calcium >8.62 mg/dL had a better prognosis than those with a serum calcium ≤8.62 mg/dL (log-rank χ2 40.84, p < 0.001). After adjusting for several common risk factors, a serum calcium ≤8.62 mg/dL was related to a higher risk of long-term mortality (HR 1.449; 95% CI 1.115~1.882; p = 0.005).Conclusions:
Serum calcium level could be served as a simple and affordable tool to evaluate patients' prognosis in DCM.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cardiomyopathy, Dilated
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Calcium
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Glob Heart
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
China