Elevated resting heart rates are a risk factor for mortality among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China

Background: We evaluated the association between higher resting heart rates (RHRs) and adverse events in COVID-19 patients. Methods: One hundred and thirty-six patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 were admitted. Outcomes of patients with different RHRs were compared. Results: Twenty-nine patients had RHRs of <80 bpm (beat per min), 85 had 80–99 bpm and 22 had ≥100 bpm as tachycardia. Those with higher RHRs had lower pulse oxygen saturation ($ SpO_{2} $) and higher temperatures, and there was a higher proportion of men upon admission (all P < 0.05). Patients with higher RHRs showed higher white blood cell counts and D-dimer, cardiac troponin I (TnI), N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide and hypersensitive C-reactive protein levels, but lower albumin levels (all P < 0.05) after admission. During follow-up, 26 patients died (mortality rate, 19.1%). The mortality rate was significantly higher among patients with tachycardia than among the moderate and low RHR groups (all P < 0.001). Kaplan–Meier survival curves showed that the risks of death and ventilation use increased for patients with tachycardia (P < 0.001). Elevated RHR as a continuous variable and a mean RHR as tachycardia were independent risk factors for mortality and ventilator use (all P < 0.05) in the multivariable adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression model. Conclusions: Elevated average RHRs during the first 3 days of hospitalisation were associated with adverse outcomes in COVID-19 patients. Average RHRs as tachycardia can independently predict all-cause mortality..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

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Journal of translational internal medicine - 9(2021), 4 vom: 31. Dez., Seite 285-293

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jin, Han [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Shengwen [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Fan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Long [VerfasserIn]
Weng, Haoyu [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Shengcong [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Fangfang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Haichao [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Xizi [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Hongyu [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jianping [VerfasserIn]

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© 2021 Han Jin et al., published by Sciendo

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10.2478/jtim-2021-0042

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GRUY008596530