Impact of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease on mortality in ICU sepsis patients: a retrospective MIMIC-IV cohort study
Yu-Cheng Chang, Min-I Su, Wen-Pin Hu, En-Chih Liao · 2025
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Yu-Cheng Chang and co-authors study whether clogged-artery disease raises death risk in intensive care patients with sepsis, in a 2025 paper. Sepsis is a body-wide crisis from infection, and artery disease adds strain to heart and vessels. The team mined a large United States ICU database for cases from 2008 to 2022. Nearly eight thousand sepsis patients qualified, and about two fifths had artery disease in the heart, limbs, or brain.
Those with artery disease skewed older and more often male. Before matching, their death rates at thirty days ran higher than the rates of patients without the disease. More diseased beds, meaning more body zones hit, went with a heavier burden of other ills. The paper's closing call is for joined care: treat the infection and the artery risk as one plan, with tuned drugs and risk control.
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| CREATOR | Yu-Cheng Chang, Min-I Su, Wen-Pin Hu, En-Chih Liao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |