Adding Hyponatremia to the "Rule-of-6" Prediction Tool Improves Performance in Identifying Hospitalised Patients with COVID-19 at Risk of Adverse Clinical Outcomes

The 'rule-of-6' prediction tool was shown to be able to identify COVID-19 patients at risk of adverse outcomes. During the pandemic, we frequently observed hyponatremia at presentation. We sought to evaluate if adding hyponatremia at presentation could improve the 'rule-of-6' pre...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pathogens (Basel) 2024-08, Vol.13 (8), p.694
Hauptverfasser: Sim, Meng Ying, Ngiam, Jinghao Nicholas, Koh, Matthew Chung Yi, Goh, Wilson, Chhabra, Srishti, Chew, Nicholas W S, Chai, Louis Yi Ann, Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah, Sia, Ching-Hui
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Zusammenfassung:The 'rule-of-6' prediction tool was shown to be able to identify COVID-19 patients at risk of adverse outcomes. During the pandemic, we frequently observed hyponatremia at presentation. We sought to evaluate if adding hyponatremia at presentation could improve the 'rule-of-6' prediction tool. We retrospectively analysed 1781 consecutive patients admitted to a single tertiary academic institution in Singapore with COVID-19 infection from February 2020 to October 2021. A total of 161 (9.0%) patients had hyponatremia. These patients were significantly older, with more co-morbidities and more likely to be admitted during the Delta wave (2021). They were more likely to have radiographic evidence of pneumonia (46.0% versus 13.0%, < 0.001) and more adverse outcomes (25.5% vs. 4.1%, < 0.001). Hyponatremia remained independently associated with adverse outcomes after adjusting for age, lack of medical co-morbidities, vaccination status, year of admission, CRP, LDH, and ferritin. The optimised cut-off for serum sodium in predicting adverse outcomes was approximately
ISSN:2076-0817
2076-0817
DOI:10.3390/pathogens13080694