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Smits RLA, Sødergren STF, van Schuppen H, Folke F, Ringh M, Jonsson M, Motazedi E, van Valkengoed IGM, Tan HL. Termination of resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in women and men: An ESCAPE-NET project. Resuscitation 2023; 185:109721. [PMID: 36791988 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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AIM Women have less favorable resuscitation characteristics than men. We investigated whether the Advanced Life Support Termination of Resuscitation rule (ALS-TOR) performs equally in women and men. Additionally, we studied whether adding or removing criteria from the ALS-TOR improved classification into survivors and non-survivors. METHODS We analyzed 6,931 female and 14,548 male out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients from Dutch and Swedish registries, and validated in 10,772 female and 21,808 male Danish OHCA patients. Performance measures were calculated for ALS-TOR in relation to 30-day survival. Recursive partitioning analysis was performed with the ALS-TOR criteria, as well as age, comorbidities, and additional resuscitation characteristics (e.g. initial rhythm, OHCA location). Finally, we explored if we could reduce the number of ALS-TOR criteria without loss of prognostic value. RESULTS The ALS-TOR had a specificity and positive predictive value (PPV) of ≥99% in both women and men (e.g. PPV 99.9 in men). Classification by recursive partitioning analysis showed a high sensitivity but a PPV below 99%, thereby exceeding the acceptable miss rate of 1%. A combination of no return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) before transport to the hospital and unwitnessed OHCA resulted in nearly equal specificity and PPV, higher sensitivity, and a lower transport rate to the hospital than the ALS-TOR. CONCLUSION For both women and men, the ALS-TOR has high specificity and low miss rate for predicting 30-day OHCA survival. We could not improve the classification with additional characteristics. Employing a simplified version may decrease the number of futile transports to the hospital.
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- R L A Smits
- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Department of Public Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Emergency Medical Services Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Department of Anesthesiology, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Emergency Medical Services Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital - Herlev and Gentofte, Hellerup, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Centre for Resuscitation Science, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Centre for Resuscitation Science, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Department of Public Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Department of Public Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Heart Centre, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Hansen ÅM, Nabe-Nielsen K, Bruunsgaard H, Jensen MA, Molbo D, Lund R, Garde AH. Educational attainment in young adulthood and self-rated health in midlife - Does allostatic load mediate the association? Psychoneuroendocrinology 2022; 139:105708. [PMID: 35259591 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 02/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This study aimed to examine the extent to which allostatic load (AL), measured in midlife, mediates the association between educational attainment in young adulthood and self-rated health (SRH) in midlife among women and men. The study used data from the Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (CAMB; n = 5467 participants, aged 48-62 years, 31.5% women). Educational attainment was assessed as years of education. SRH was assessed with one item: 'In general, how would you say your health is?' with response options from "excellent" to "poor". AL mediated 31.7% and 19.7% of the association between educational attainment and SRH in women and men, respectively. We observed that higher educational attainment was associated with better SRH and lower AL in both women and men. Our study showed that AL partly mediates the association between educational attainment in young adulthood and SRH in adulthood among both men and women. This study indicates that educational attainment in young adulthood affects health throughout life. Such knowledge of a potential mediator may be important in breaking the social heritage.
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- Åse Marie Hansen
- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Inflammation and Metabolism and Department of Clinical Immunology, National University Hospital, Copenhagen, and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Biradar RA, Singh DP, Thakur H, Halli SS. Gender differences in the risk factors for high and very high blood glucose levels: A study of Kerala. Diabetes Metab Syndr 2020; 14:627-636. [PMID: 32422447 DOI: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Worldwide, lifestyle is a significant risk factor for diabetes. Lifestyle changes can lead to differences in the extent of risk of diabetes among women and men. Kerala, a state with one of the best health indicators in India, has a high prevalence of diabetes. This study aimed at comparing the variations in the risk factors for HBG and VHBG among adult women and men in Kerala. METHODS Data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (2015-16) used to examine the differences in the risk factors for HBG and VHBG in men and women aged 15-49 years. We used bivariate, multivariate and Population Attributable Risk (PAR) techniques for analysing the data. RESULTS Bivariate results have shown the pattern of HBG and VHBG prevalence in women and men was same among all the age groups; however, men show a higher HBG and VHBG than women in all the age groups. Prevalence of HBG and VHBG was higher in women with a primary education, who were poor and not working as compared to their male counterparts. PARs results show that the prevalence of VHBG was higher among obese men and women as compared to normal men and underweight women. Prevalence of HBG was higher among men as compared to women due to alcohol use and weekly consumption of non-vegetarian food. CONCLUSIONS The study suggests that there is an urgent need for targeted intervention programs to address the problem of HBG and VHBG in both men and women in Kerala to control blood glucose levels.
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- Rajeshwari A Biradar
- School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
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- School of Research Methodology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
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- National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India; School of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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