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Published on: February 19, 2017
Association between red blood cell distribution width and all-cause mortality in unselected critically ill patients:
Shixuan Peng1, Wenxuan Li2, Weiqi Ke3
1Department of Oncology, Graduate Collaborative Training Base of The First People's Hospital of Xiangtan City, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China.
Background:
Although red cell distribution width (RDW) is widely observed in clinical practice, only a few studies have looked at all-cause mortality in unselected critically ill patients, and there are even fewer studies on long-term mortality. The goal of our study was to explore the prediction and inference of mortality in unselected critically ill patients by assessing RDW levels.
Methods:
We obtained demographic information, laboratory results, prevalence data, and vital signs from the unselected critically ill patients using the publicly available MIMIC-III database. We then used this information to analyze the association between baseline RDW levels and unselected critically ill patients using Cox proportional risk analysis, smoothed curve fitting, subgroup analysis, and Kaplan-Meier survival curves for short, intermediate, and long-term all-cause mortality in unselected critically ill patients.
Results:
A total of 26,818 patients were included in our study for the final data analysis after screening in accordance with acceptable conditions. Our study investigated the relationship between RDW levels and all-cause mortality in a non-selected population by a smoothed curve fit plots and COX proportional risk regression models integrating cubic spline functions reported results about a non-linear relationship. In the fully adjusted model, we found that RDW values were positively associated with 30-day, 90-day, 365-day, and 4-year all-cause mortality in 26,818 non-selected adult patients with HRs of 1.10 95%CIs (1.08, 1.12); 1.11 95%CIs (1.10, 1.13); 1.13 95%CIs (1.12, 1.14); 1.13 95%CIs (1.12, 1.14).
Conclusion:
In unselected critically ill patients, RDW levels were positively associated with all-cause mortality, with elevated RDW levels increasing all-cause mortality.
