Age affects the prognostic impact of diabetes in chronic heart failure

AIMS: Increasing age is an established prognostic determinant in chronic heart failure (HF). Diabetes often complicates HF in its course and appears to worsen HF prognosis. A differential impact of diabetes depending on patients' age was not yet studied. We evaluated the impact of diabetes in the mortality of HF patients according to their age.

METHODS: We studied a cohort of chronic ambulatory HF patients prospectively recruited. Patients were on optimized evidence-based therapy, and they were excluded if on renal replacement therapy or if they had any therapy modification or hospitalizations in the previous 2 months. Patients were followed for up to 5 years; all-cause mortality was analyzed. Mortality predictors were assessed using a Cox regression. Analysis was stratified according to patient's age: cutoff 75 years. Multivariate models were built. Interaction between diabetes and age was formally tested.

RESULTS: We studied 283 chronic HF patients; mean age was 69 years and 70.3% were male; 58.0% had severe systolic dysfunction; 105 (37.1%) were diabetic. In patients with less than 75 years, the coexistence of diabetes predicted a multivariate adjusted 1.98 (95% CI 1.13-3.46) 5-year death risk while in older patients (≥ 75 years) no significant association was reported. Age interacted with the prognostic impact of diabetes, p for interaction = 0.04.

CONCLUSIONS: The prognostic impact of diabetes in chronic HF depends on patient's age. In patients < 75 years, the coexistence of diabetes predicts an almost double risk of 5-year mortality; no such association exists in patients with 75 years or above. Diabetes predicts mortality only in younger HF patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:55

Enthalten in:

Acta diabetologica - 55(2018), 3 vom: 16. März, Seite 271-278

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cunha, Filipe Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Pereira, Joana [VerfasserIn]
Ribeiro, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Amorim, Marta [VerfasserIn]
Silva, Sérgio [VerfasserIn]
Araújo, José Paulo [VerfasserIn]
Leite-Moreira, Adelino [VerfasserIn]
Bettencourt, Paulo [VerfasserIn]
Lourenço, Patrícia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Age
Diabetes
Heart failure
Journal Article
Prognosis

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Date Completed 23.05.2018

Date Revised 02.12.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00592-017-1092-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM279760604