Cardiac Function Before Sepsis and Clinical Outcomes

JAMA. 2024 May 7;331(17):1496-1499. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.3917.
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Plain language summary

This cohort study characterizes heterogeneity in cardiac function prior to sepsis and describes associations with hospitalization outcomes and mortality.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Comorbidity
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart / physiopathology
  • Hospitalization
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Prognosis
  • Sepsis* / epidemiology
  • Sepsis* / mortality
  • Sepsis* / therapy
  • United States / epidemiology
  • Ventricular Dysfunction* / epidemiology
  • Ventricular Dysfunction* / mortality
  • Ventricular Dysfunction* / therapy
  • Ventricular Function