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Prognostic significance of diabetes in a heart failure population: one year mortality and heart failure related hospital admission

Abstract:

Results One-hundred forty-three out of 362 patients were diabetic (39.5%). Thirty patients (8%) died and 70 (19%) needed to be hospitalized due to heart failure during the first year of follow-up. One year mortality was 5% in non-diabetic patients and 13.3% in diabetic patients (p= 0.005). 13.2% of non-diabetic patients suffered at least one episode of heart failure needing hospital admission, whereas 28.7% of diabetic patients needed to be hospitalized at least once (p< 0.001). In the multivariate regression analysis, diabetes remained statistically associated both with mortality and with the need of heart failure related hospital admission. Conclusions Diabetes significantly correlated with a higher one year mortality as well as with a greater need of hospital admission due to heart failure. Prevalence of diabetes in a general population with heart failure was high.