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Washington DC. [USA]According to one study, patients with sepsis are more likely to suffer from stroke and heart attacks in the first four weeks after discharge.
The researchers looked at data on more than one million people in Taiwan, among whom 42,316 patients had sepsis, associated with both hospital and general population control patients.
All patients with sepsis had at least one organ dysfunction, 35% were resuscitated and 22% had died within 30 days of admission. In the total sepsis group, 1012 had a cardiovascular event, 831 had a stroke and 184 had a myocardial infarction within 180 days of discharge from the hospital.
The risk was highest during the first seven days after discharge, with more than a quarter (26%) of myocardial infarction or strokes occurring in the immediate period and 51% within 35 days.
"We found that in the first 4 weeks after discharge from hospital, the critical period with a very high risk of [myocardial infarction] and stroke, "wrote Dr. Chien-Chang Lee, Department of Emergency Medicine, National University Hospital of Taiwan.
The authors also found that younger patients with sepsis aged 20 to 45 years had a higher risk of heart attack or stroke compared to patients over 75 years of age.
This study extended the results of a Danish study that reported similar trends.
"Based on our study (Han Chinese) and the study in Denmark (European) that reported similar results for two different ethnic groups, it is likely that these results can be generalized to different populations," the authors wrote. authors.
The results were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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