Hemoglobin predicts mortality risk in geriatric patients with dysphagia: a Japanese retrospective cohort study
Ping Yuan, Li Zhuo, Jingyi Xue, Xinglin Gao · 2026
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Ping Yuan and colleagues ask whether blood hemoglobin levels foretell death in older patients with swallowing trouble, in work published in 2026. Hemoglobin is a known outlook marker in many diseases, but its worth in old people with dysphagia was not clear.
The team re-analyzed a public Japanese cohort of 253 patients from January 2014 to January 2017, with a median age of 83 years, per the report, 154 of them women. Hemoglobin was taken within 7 days before feeding support began and split into three bands. Each rise of 1 gram per deciliter tied to lower death risk, with an adjusted ratio of 0.83 kept mid-sentence here as reported. Middle and high bands fared far better than the lowest band. The simple blood test may help flag frail patients early.
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| CREATOR | Ping Yuan, Li Zhuo, Jingyi Xue, Xinglin Gao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21585 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |