Hypertension was the most common comorbidity present in all patients and treated with ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers in 14, diuretics in 8, betablockers in 6, and calcium channel blockers in 8 cases.
The results reported may direct healthcare professionals to profile the patient hospitalized in a CICU, paying attention to the most disturbing and lethal comorbidities present on admission.
In addition, most patients had multiple comorbidities with two, three, or four comorbidities present in 17%, 22%, and 25% of patients, respectively.
Compared with patients hospitalized during our earliest study years (1990 1991), patients hospitalized during the most recent periods under study (1997 1999, 2001 2003, and 2005 2007) were significantly more likely to report having multiple comorbidities present.
Conclusion: The most comorbidities among participants were GI diseases, having surgery and thyroid disorders, respectively.
Most comorbidities increased the risk of death.
The incidence of individual comorbidities was similar in both groups for most comorbidities.
Logistic regression results revealed that most cases of induced comorbidity presented significant differences in prostate volume (hazard ratio [HR] =1.03; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.01 1.05; P=0.003) and catheterization before the operation (HR =2.92, 95% CI: 1.16 7.36; P=0.023).
†Top five (out of 17) most common comorbidities are presented.
The most frequent comorbidities they presented were: hypertension (70%%), osteoarthritis (57 %) and ischemic disease (37 %).
