Age- and gender-specific risk of death after first hospitalization for heart failure

Introduction and Aim: To investigate the influence of diabetes on trends in 3-year survival in patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF). Method: The Swedish Hospital Discharge and Cause of Death Registers were used to estimate age and gender-specific trends in 3-year case-fatality in 404,480 patients hospitalized with HF in 1987 to 2004, among whom 73,153 (18%) had diabetes. Results: 3-year case-fatality was 28% higher among HF patients with diabetes compared to non-diabetics (age- and sex-adjusted HR 1.28, 95% CI 1.26-1.29). Overall, case-fatality among men with HF aged < 65 years decreased by more than half and among men aged 65 years and older by 30%, irrespective of the presence of diabetes. Women aged 65 and over with diabetes also displayed a decrease of 30%, whereas there was a leveling off in survival after the mid-90s among women without diabetes, such that the difference in survival between diabetic and non-diabetic women decreased. Conclusions: 3-year mortality in patients with HF decreased more for younger, compared to older individuals and more for men than women. Coexistence of diabetes did not influence the trends in outcome adversely, with continuing improvement in prognosis also for heart failure patients with diabetes.

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Age- and Gender-specific Risk Factors Associated with Difficult-to-treat Asthma Phenotype among Japanese Asthmatic Patients

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ◽

10.1016/j.jaci.2008.12.842 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 123 (2) ◽

pp. S220-S220

Author(s):

Y. Fukutomi ◽

M. Taniguchi ◽

T. Tsuburai ◽

N. Higashi ◽

S. Tatsuno ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Asthma Phenotype ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Asthmatic Patients ◽

Specific Risk ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Specific

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1603-P: Changes in Age- and Gender-Specific All-Cause Mortality Rates and Ratios in People with T2DM in Hungary between 2001-2016: A Nationwide Cohort Study

Diabetes ◽

10.2337/db20-1603-p ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽

pp. 1603-P

Author(s):

GYORGY JERMENDY ◽

ZOLTAN KISS ◽

GYÖRGY ROKSZIN ◽

IBOLYA FÁBIÁN ◽

ISTVAN WITTMANN ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cohort Study ◽

Mortality Rates ◽

Age And Gender ◽

All Cause Mortality ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Specific

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Developing waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio percentile curves for Pakistani children and adolescents aged 2–18 years using Lambda-Mu-Sigma (LMS) method

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism ◽

10.1515/jpem-2019-0527 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (8) ◽

pp. 983-993 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Muhammad Asif ◽

Muhammad Aslam ◽

Saima Altaf ◽

Sajid Mustafa

Keyword(s):

Waist Circumference ◽

Central Obesity ◽

The Other ◽

Height Ratio ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Percentile Curves ◽

Lms Method ◽

Waist To Height Ratio ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Specific

AbstractObjectivesChildren from different countries and with different ethnic backgrounds have a distinct pattern of central fat deposition. Therefore, it is essential to develop population-specific percentiles of waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and waist-to-height ratio exponent (WHtR (exp)) for the evaluation of central obesity. The objective of this study was to develop age-and-gender-specific smoothed WC and WHtR percentile curves for the Pakistani children and adolescents aged 2–18 years.MethodsA cross-sectional data-set from a multi-ethnic anthropometric survey was considered. A sample of 10,668 healthy subjects (boys = 51.92%; and girls = 48.08%), aged 2–18 years was studied. Height (cm) and WC (cm) of each subject was measured under standard procedure and WHtR & WHtR (exp) were calculated. Age-and-gender-specific smoothed curves were obtained using the lambda-mu-sigma (LMS) method and compared with percentile curves obtained from different countries.ResultsExcept few early ages, the WC values increased with age in both sexes. Both boys and girls had approximately similar WC during 6–11 years of age and after age of 11, the boys had larger WC than the girls had. For WHtR, the centile curves showed a continuous decrease by 16 years of age and then increased gradually. WHtR of the girls in various ages were having similar or higher than those of the boys. In comparison of WC 50th and 90th percentiles with other countries, it was found that except few ages, the Pakistani children had larger WC than the other reference populations and the results of WHtR were also comparable to the other nations.ConclusionsWe present new reference data of WC, WHtR and WHtR (exp) using a representative sample of the Pakistani children aged 2–18 years. These reference values can be used provisionally for early detection of central obesity and its associated risks in the Pakistani children.

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