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- Title
The multifaceted spectrum of liver cirrhosis in older hospitalised patients: analysis of the REPOSI registry.
- Authors
Vincentis, Antonio De; Vespasiani-Gentilucci, Umberto; Costanzo, Luisa; Novella, Alessio; Cortesi, Laura; Nobili, Alessandro; Mannucci, Pier Mannuccio; Incalzi, Raffaele Antonelli; Investigators, REPOSI
- Abstract
Background Knowledge on the main clinical and prognostic characteristics of older multimorbid subjects with liver cirrhosis (LC) admitted to acute medical wards is scarce. Objectives To estimate the prevalence of LC among older patients admitted to acute medical wards and to assess the main clinical characteristics of LC along with its association with major clinical outcomes and to explore the possibility that well-distinguished phenotypic profiles of LC have classificatory and prognostic properties. Methods A cohort of 6,193 older subjects hospitalised between 2010 and 2018 and included in the REPOSI registry was analysed. Results LC was diagnosed in 315 patients (5%). LC was associated with rehospitalisation (age–sex adjusted hazard ratio, [aHR] 1.44; 95% CI, 1.10–1.88) and with mortality after discharge, independently of all confounders (multiple aHR, 2.1; 95% CI, 1.37–3.22), but not with in-hospital mortality and incident disability. Three main clinical phenotypes of LC patients were recognised: relatively fit subjects (FIT, N = 150), subjects characterised by poor social support (PSS, N = 89) and, finally, subjects with disability and multimorbidity (D&M, N = 76). PSS subjects had an increased incident disability (35% vs 13%, P < 0.05) compared to FIT. D&M patients had a higher mortality (in-hospital: 12% vs 3%/1%, P < 0.01; post-discharge: 41% vs 12%/15%, P < 0.01) and less rehospitalisation (10% vs 32%/34%, P < 0.01) compared to PSS and FIT. Conclusions LC has a relatively low prevalence in older hospitalised subjects but, when present, accounts for worse post-discharge outcomes. Phenotypic analysis unravelled the heterogeneity of LC older population and the association of selected phenotypes with different clinical and prognostic features.
- Subjects
CONFIDENCE intervals; CIRRHOSIS of the liver; HOSPITAL care of older people; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; OLD age
- Publication
Age & Ageing, 2021, Vol 50, Issue 2, p498
- ISSN
0002-0729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ageing/afaa150