Prognostic Effect of the Dose of Loop Diuretic Over 5 Years in Chronic Heart Failure

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BACKGROUND: High diuretic doses in chronic heart failure (HF) are potentially deleterious. We assessed the effect of dynamic furosemide dose on all-cause mortality among HF ambulatory patients.

METHODS AND RESULTS: A cohort of 560 ambulatory patients from an outpatient clinic specialized in HF, with median age 70 years, 67% male, and 89% with moderate-severely reduced ejection fraction, was retrospectively followed for up to 5 years. Dynamic furosamide exposure was categorized as low (0-59 mg/d), medium (60-119 mg/d), high (120-159 mg/d), and very high (≥160 mg/d). Extended Cox models were used to estimate the association between time-varying diuretic dose and mortality. A dose-dependent crude association between higher doses of furosemide and death (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.34, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.06-2.16; HR = 2.09, 95% CI: 1.54-2.84, for high and very high dose, respectively) was totally explained by patients' characteristics and disease severity indicators (adjusted HR = 0.94, 95% CI: 0.63-1.38; HR = 1.10, 95% CI: 0.79-1.55, for high and very high dose, respectively).

CONCLUSION: In this context, higher doses of diuretic did not impair survival, but rather indicated greater severity of the patient's condition.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Journal of cardiac failure - 23(2017), 8 vom: 10. Aug., Seite 589-593

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Laszczyńska, Olga [VerfasserIn]
Severo, Milton [VerfasserIn]
Friões, Fernando [VerfasserIn]
Lourenço, Patrícia [VerfasserIn]
Silva, Sérgio [VerfasserIn]
Bettencourt, Paulo [VerfasserIn]
Lunet, Nuno [VerfasserIn]
Azevedo, Ana [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Diuretics
Dose
Furosemide
Heart failure
Journal Article
Loop diuretics
Prognosis
Sodium Potassium Chloride Symporter Inhibitors

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Date Completed 09.07.2018

Date Revised 09.07.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cardfail.2017.04.001

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM270785183