As patients with CF live longer due to dramatic improvements in disease management, there will be a greater need for cardiovascular screening and management, investigators said.
BOSTON — With the remarkable advances made in therapy over the past decade, many patients with cystic fibrosis can expect to survive into their 50s and even well beyond. But as patients with CF live longer, they are increasingly likely to develop complications such as cardiovascular diseases that beset many older adults. And as evidence from a new study suggests, there is an increasing need for cardiovascular screening and specialized cardiac care for these patients.
Although the excess mortality was no longer statistically significant in analyses adjusted for potential confounding factors, the data highlight a trend that requires further exploration, he said during an oral abstract session at the"There's a trend for people with cystic fibrosis admitted for cardiac causes to have a higher inhospital mortality and increased rate of discharge to nursing facilities, especially for patients admitted for heart failure.
Of 83,250 total hospitalizations during the study period, 415 were for primary cardiac causes. These included 170 hospitalizations for atrial fibrillation, 95 for heart failure, and 150 for myocardial infarction. In all, 5% of patients hospitalized for cardiac cause died in hospital, compared with 2% of patients hospitalized for other reasons , but this difference too disappeared in adjusted analyses.
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