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Impact of Peripheral Artery Disease on Prognosis in Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients.
Circ J. 2015 Jan 28;
Authors: Nakamura Y, Kunii H, Yoshihisa A, Takiguchi M, Shimizu T, Yamauchi H, Iwaya S, Owada T, Abe S, Sato T, Suzuki S, Oikawa M, Kobayashi A, Yamaki T, Sugimoto K, Nakazato K, Suzuki H, Saitoh SI, Takeishi Y
Abstract
Background:The impact of peripheral artery disease (PAD) on heart failure (HF) prognosis remains unclear.Methods and Results:A total of 388 consecutive decompensated HF patients were divided into 2 groups based on the presence of PAD: HF with PAD (PAD group, n=101, 26.0%) and HF without PAD (non-PAD group, n=287, 74.0%). We compared clinical features, echocardiographic parameters, cardiopulmonary exercise testing results, laboratory findings, as well as cardiac, non-cardiac, and all-cause mortality between the 2 groups. The PAD group, as compared with the non-PAD group, had (1) higher prevalence of coronary artery disease (40.6 vs. 27.5%, P=0.011) and cerebrovascular disease (34.7 vs. 18.2%, P=0.001); (2) higher tumor necrosis factor-α (1.82 vs. 1.49 pg/ml, P=0.023), C-reactive protein (0.32 vs. 0.19 mg/dl, P=0.045), and troponin T (0.039 vs. 0.021 ng/ml, P=0.019); (3) lower LVEF (42.4 vs. 48.5%, P<0.001); (4) lower peak V̇O2(13.4 vs. 15.9 ml·kg(-1)·min(-1), P=0.001); and (5) higher V̇E/V̇CO2slope (38.8 vs. 33.7, P<0.001). On Kaplan-Meier analysis, cardiac, non-cardiac, and all-cause mortality were significantly higher in the PAD group than in the non-PAD group (P<0.05, respectively). On Cox proportional hazard analysis after adjusting for confounding factors, PAD was an independent predictor of cardiac and all-cause mortality (P<0.05, respectively) in HF patients.Conclusions:PAD was common and an independent predictor of cardiac and all-cause mortality in HF patients.
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