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Underweight and hypoalbuminemia as risk indicators for mortality among psychiatric patients with medical comorbidities.
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2017 December
AIM: Medical comorbidities are a major cause of death among patients with mental illness. The purpose of this study was to clarify the risk factors for mortality among psychiatric patients with medical comorbidities.
METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical files of patients transferred to Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital from a psychiatric hospital to treat medical comorbidities during the 3-year period from January 2014 to December 2016. We analyzed the clinical differences between the expired and alive patients.
RESULTS: Of the 287 patients included, 29 (10.1%) had expired at the time of hospital discharge, while 258 (89.9%) were living. A multivariable analysis to determine the prognostic factors related to mortality from medical comorbidities showed that body mass index <18.5 had the highest odds ratio among the predictive factors (5.1; 95% confidence interval, 1.5-17.1; P < 0.05), followed by a serum albumin level < 3.0 mg/dL (3.0; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-8.1; P < 0.05).
CONCLUSION: We found that underweight and hypoalbuminemia were risk factors for mortality among psychiatric patients with medical comorbidities. Physicians at psychiatric hospitals should consider transferring patients with medical comorbidities to a general medical hospital in the presence of underweight and/or hypoalbuminemia.
METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical files of patients transferred to Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital from a psychiatric hospital to treat medical comorbidities during the 3-year period from January 2014 to December 2016. We analyzed the clinical differences between the expired and alive patients.
RESULTS: Of the 287 patients included, 29 (10.1%) had expired at the time of hospital discharge, while 258 (89.9%) were living. A multivariable analysis to determine the prognostic factors related to mortality from medical comorbidities showed that body mass index <18.5 had the highest odds ratio among the predictive factors (5.1; 95% confidence interval, 1.5-17.1; P < 0.05), followed by a serum albumin level < 3.0 mg/dL (3.0; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-8.1; P < 0.05).
CONCLUSION: We found that underweight and hypoalbuminemia were risk factors for mortality among psychiatric patients with medical comorbidities. Physicians at psychiatric hospitals should consider transferring patients with medical comorbidities to a general medical hospital in the presence of underweight and/or hypoalbuminemia.
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