TY - JOUR
T1 - A propensity-matched study of the effect of diabetes on the natural history of heart failure
T2 - Variations by sex and age
AU - Ahmed, Ali
AU - Aban, Inmaculada B.
AU - Vaccarino, Viola
AU - Lloyd-Jones, Donald M.
AU - Goff, David C.
AU - Zhao, Jiannan
AU - Love, Thomas E.
AU - Ritchie, Christine
AU - Ovalle, Fernando
AU - Gambassi, Giovanni
AU - Dell'Italia, Louis J.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - Background: Poor prognosis in heart failure (HF) patients with diabetes is often attributed to increased comorbidity and advanced disease. Further, this effect may be worse in women. Objective: To determine whether the effect of diabetes on outcomes and the sex-related variation persisted in a propensity score-matched HF population, and whether the sex-related variation was a function of age. Methods: Of the 7788 HF patients in the Digitalis Investigation Group trial, 2218 had a history of diabetes. Propensity score for diabetes was calculated for each patient using a non-parsimonious logistic regression model incorporating all measured baseline covariates, and was used to match 2056 (93%) diabetic patients with 2056 non-diabetic patients. Results: All-cause mortality occurred in 135 (25%) and 216 (39%) women without and with diabetes (adjusted HR = 1.67; 95% CI = 1.34 to 2.08; p<0.001). Among men, 535 (36%) and 609 (41%) patients without and with diabetes died from all causes (adjusted HR = 1.21; 95% CI = 1.07 to 1.36; p = 0.002). Sex-diabetes interaction (overall adjusted p<0.001) was only significant in patients ≥65 years (15% absolute risk increase in women; multivariable p for interaction = 0.005), but not in younger patients (2% increase in women; p for interaction = 0.173). Risk-adjusted HR (95% CI) for all-cause hospitalisation for women and men were 1.49 (1.28 to 1.72) and 1.21 (1.11 to 1.32), respectively, also with significant sex-diabetes interaction (p = 0.011). Conclusions: Diabetes-associated increases in morbidity and mortality in chronic HF were more pronounced in women, and theses sex-related differences in outcomes were primarily observed in elderly patients.
AB - Background: Poor prognosis in heart failure (HF) patients with diabetes is often attributed to increased comorbidity and advanced disease. Further, this effect may be worse in women. Objective: To determine whether the effect of diabetes on outcomes and the sex-related variation persisted in a propensity score-matched HF population, and whether the sex-related variation was a function of age. Methods: Of the 7788 HF patients in the Digitalis Investigation Group trial, 2218 had a history of diabetes. Propensity score for diabetes was calculated for each patient using a non-parsimonious logistic regression model incorporating all measured baseline covariates, and was used to match 2056 (93%) diabetic patients with 2056 non-diabetic patients. Results: All-cause mortality occurred in 135 (25%) and 216 (39%) women without and with diabetes (adjusted HR = 1.67; 95% CI = 1.34 to 2.08; p<0.001). Among men, 535 (36%) and 609 (41%) patients without and with diabetes died from all causes (adjusted HR = 1.21; 95% CI = 1.07 to 1.36; p = 0.002). Sex-diabetes interaction (overall adjusted p<0.001) was only significant in patients ≥65 years (15% absolute risk increase in women; multivariable p for interaction = 0.005), but not in younger patients (2% increase in women; p for interaction = 0.173). Risk-adjusted HR (95% CI) for all-cause hospitalisation for women and men were 1.49 (1.28 to 1.72) and 1.21 (1.11 to 1.32), respectively, also with significant sex-diabetes interaction (p = 0.011). Conclusions: Diabetes-associated increases in morbidity and mortality in chronic HF were more pronounced in women, and theses sex-related differences in outcomes were primarily observed in elderly patients.
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U2 - 10.1136/hrt.2006.113522
DO - 10.1136/hrt.2006.113522
M3 - Article
C2 - 17488764
AN - SCOPUS:36749051237
VL - 93
SP - 1584
EP - 1590
JO - Heart
JF - Heart
SN - 1355-6037
IS - 12
ER -