Coexistence of dementia with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis is associated with patient in-hospital mortality
Coexistence of dementia with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis is associated with patient in-hospital mortality
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DOI:
10.1016/j.resinv.2019.01.004
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发表时间:
2019-07-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Miyashita, Yoshihiro
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作者:
Saiki, Masafumi;Iijima, Yuki;Miyashita, Yoshihiro
Background: The impact of dementia on the survival of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) remains unclear. This study sought to describe the risk factors influencing inhospital mortality in patients with pulmonary TB and comorbid dementia.Methods: A 9-y, medical record-based retrospective study of hospitalized adult patients with newly diagnosed, smear-positive, non-multidrug-resistant pulmonary TB without human immunodeficiency virus infection was performed. Clinical presentations, biochemical tests, radiographic findings, and clinical outcomes were collected. Variables were compared between groups. Statistically significant (p-value < 0.05) variables were entered into a multivariate stepwise logistic regression model. Survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier method, and groups were compared by log-rank test.Results: Of the 279 enrolled patients (178 men; median age, 76 y), the mortality rate was 12.2% (34/279). Univariate analysis showed a higher frequency of dementia in patients who died in hospital than that in surviving patients. Multivariate stepwise logistic analysis showed that dementia was significantly associated with higher rates of in-hospital mortality (odds ratio, 3.20; 95% confidence interval, 1.15-8.88, p = 0.026). In addition, subgroup survival curves showed that dementia was associated with reduced survival rates, even after adjusting for age (log-rank test, p = 0.0007).Conclusions: The comorbidity of dementia with pulmonary TB was associated with patient in-hospital mortality. Medical practitioners should be aware of dementia in patients with smear-positive pulmonary TB to identify high-mortality groups. (C) 2019 The Japanese Respiratory Society. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.