Persistent high blood urea nitrogen level is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events in patients with acute heart failure

• Published in: ESC Heart Failure Vol. 4; no. 4; pp. 545 - 553
• Main Authors: Jujo, Kentaro, Minami, Yuichiro, Haruki, Shintaro, Matsue, Yuya, Shimazaki, Kensuke, Kadowaki, Hiromu, Ishida, Issei, Kambayashi, Keigo, Arashi, Hiroyuki, Sekiguchi, Haruki, Hagiwara, Nobuhisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2017; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Acute heart failure; Aged; Biomarkers - blood; Blood Urea Nitrogen; Cardiovascular event; Clinical outcomes; Disease Progression; Drug dosages; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Glomerular Filtration Rate; Heart failure; Heart Failure - blood; Heart Failure - epidemiology; Hemoglobin; Hospitalization; Humans; Incidence; Japan - epidemiology; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Medical prognosis; Mortality; Nitrogen; Original; Original s; Patients; Population; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Studies; Survival Rate - trends; Values; Blood urea nitrogen; Cardiovascular event; Acute heart failure

Aims The association between kinetics of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) levels in hospital and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with acutely decompensated congestive heart failure (HF) is unclear. We aimed to estimate the impact of changes in BUN level during hospitalization on clinical prognosis in p...