Publications by authors named "M Benito-Lozano"
Objectives: To analyze whether the high levels of air pollutants are related to a greater severity of decompensated heart failure (HF).
Method: Patients diagnosed with decompensated HF in the emergency department of 4 hospitals in Barcelona and 3 in Madrid were included. Clinical data (age, sex, comorbidities, baseline functional status), atmospheric (temperature, atmospheric pressure) and pollutant data (SO, NO, CO, O, PM, PM) were collected in the city on the day of emergency care.
To investigate the relationship of ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure (AP) at patient discharge after an episode of acute heart failure (AHF) with very early post-discharge adverse outcomes. We analyzed 14,656 patients discharged after an AHF episode from 26 hospitals in 16 Spanish cities. The primary outcome was the 7-day post-discharge combined adverse event (emergency department -ED- revisit or hospitalization due to AHF, or all-cause death), and secondary outcomes were these three adverse events considered individually.
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- The study aimed to explore how ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure relate to the severity of heart failure (HF) decompensations in patients from a large Spanish cohort.
- Analyzing data from over 16,000 patients, the researchers found a U-shaped relationship between temperature and hospitalizations, with increased risks at both high (> 25 °C) and low (< 5.4 °C) temperatures, along with a trend of rising hospitalizations at higher atmospheric pressures.
- The findings suggest that both high temperatures and elevated atmospheric pressures can worsen heart failure conditions, while milder conditions appear to be linked to lower mortality rates.
Objectives: To determine whether there are differences in the clinical characteristics, management, and outcome of episodes of acute heart failure (AHF) in residents of the Canary Islands, where the climate is subtropical, and episodes in continental Spain.
Material And Methods: Cases were identified in the registry for Epidemiology of Acute Heart Failure in Emergency Departments and categorized as in the Canary Islands or continental Spain. Data for 38 demographic, baseline, clinical, and therapeutic variables were extracted.