Elevated BUN Upon Admission as a Predictor of in-Hospital Mortality Among Patients with Acute Exacerbation of COPD : A Secondary Analysis of Multicenter Cohort Study

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Background: High blood urea nitrogen (BUN) is observed in a subset of patients with acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) and may be linked to clinical outcome, but findings from previous studies have been inconsistent.

Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of patients prospectively enrolled in the MAGNET AECOPD Registry study (ChiCTR2100044625). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) was used to determine the level of BUN that discriminated survivors and non-survivors. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were performed to assess the impact of BUN on adverse outcomes.

Results: Overall, 13,431 consecutive inpatients with AECOPD were included in this study, of whom 173 died, with the mortality of 1.29%. The non-survivors had higher levels of BUN compared with the survivors [9.5 (6.8-15.3) vs 5.6 (4.3-7.5) mmol/L, P < 0.001]. ROC curve analysis showed that the optimal cutoff of BUN level was 7.30 mmol/L for in-hospital mortality (AUC: 0.782; 95% CI: 0.748-0.816; P < 0.001). After multivariate analysis, BUN level ≥7.3 mmol/L was an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality (HR = 2.099; 95% CI: 1.378-3.197, P = 0.001), also for invasive mechanical ventilation (HR = 1.540; 95% CI: 1.199-1.977, P = 0.001) and intensive care unit admission (HR = 1.344; 95% CI: 1.117-1.617, P = 0.002). Other independent prognostic factors for in-hospital mortality including age, renal dysfunction, heart failure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, PaCO2 and D-dimer.

Conclusion: BUN is an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality in inpatients with AECOPD and may be used to identify serious (or severe) patients and guide the management of AECOPD.

Clinical Trial Registration: MAGNET AECOPD; Chinese Clinical Trail Registry NO.: ChiCTR2100044625; Registered March 2021, URL: http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=121626.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - 18(2023) vom: 17., Seite 1445-1455

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Jiarui [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Yichun [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Yuanming [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Hailong [VerfasserIn]
Ge, Huiqing [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Hui-Guo [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jianchu [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xianhua [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Pinhua [VerfasserIn]
Yi, Mengqiu [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Lina [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Aili, Adila [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Lige [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Pu, Jiaqi [VerfasserIn]
Yi, Qun [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Haixia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AECOPD
Adverse outcomes
Blood urea nitrogen
Inpatients
Journal Article
Mortality
Multicenter Study

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Date Completed 21.07.2023

Date Revised 17.09.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2147/COPD.S412106

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM359662935