Risk factors for mortality in diabetic patients discharged from hospital identified

Date:
September 2, 2020
Source:
University of Warwick
Summary:
When patients are discharged from hospital, those with diabetes are
at an increased risk of readmission and early mortality. There are
guidelines for discharging patients with diabetes to reduce these
risks. Researchers have now identified known risk factors for early
mortality in adult patients discharged from hospital with diabetes.



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When patients are discharged from hospital, those with diabetes are at
an increased risk of readmission and early mortality.

There are guidelines for discharging patients with diabetes to reduce
these risks. Researchers have now identified known risk factors for
early mortality in adult patients discharged from hospital with diabetes.


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In the paper, 'A Systematic Review Considering Risk factors for Mortality
of Patients Discharged from Hospital with a Diagnosis of Diabetes',
published in the Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, researchers identified 35 studies that considered the risk factors relating to
mortality for patients discharged from hospital with diabetes, they
analysed these studies and identified 48 significant risk factors for mortality.

The 48 risk factors are grouped into the following nine categories:
* . Demographic
. Socioeconomic . Lifestyle . Patient medical factors . Inpatient
stay factors


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. Medication related . Laboratory results . Glycaemic status
Professor Theo Arvanitis, from the Institute of Digital Healthcare
at WMG, University of Warwick comments: "The most common risk factor
is in the demographic category of age and the second most important
factor is co-morbidity burden; this comes under the patient medical
factors category, and means patients have more than one condition. We
also identified BMI as a significant risk within the patient medical
factors category, with those who were at the heavier end of the scales
to be more at risk.

"Thirty-Seven of the risk factors we identified from one research
paper. This tell us that this research in general is still very early,
and more studies are needed to identify the importance and possibly any
other risk factors. This could decrease the mortality rate of diabetics discharged from hospitals in the future."

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========================================================================== Journal Reference:
1. Teesta Mukherjee, Tim Robbins, Sarah N. Lim Choi Keung, Sailesh
Sankar,
Harpal Randeva, Theodoros N. Arvanitis. A systematic review
considering risk factors for mortality of patients discharged from
hospital with a diagnosis of diabetes. Journal of Diabetes and
its Complications, 2020; 107705 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2020.107705 ==========================================================================

Link to news story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200902095122.htm

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