Association of serum lactate and one-year mortality among women with coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: filling gaps in female

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Rong Zhang, Kai Zhang, and Bo Li study blood lactate and later death in women after heart bypass surgery, in work from twenty twenty-six. High or low lactate around surgery has been tied to poor outcomes after heart work. Women have been studied far less than men for this link. The team uses records from a large intensive care registry in the United States.

The study follows more than a thousand women treated at one Boston medical center over many years. The main outcome is death within one year of surgery. After careful adjustment, both the lowest and a higher middle band of lactate tied to higher risk. The safest band sat in the middle, which gives a U-shaped curve. Extra checks by subgroup backed the same pattern. Care teams may need to watch both extremes, not just high values.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13317165