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Prevalence and Causes of Anemia in Hospitalized Patients: Impact on Diseases Outcome by Randi, Maria Luigia; Bertozzi, Irene; Santarossa, Claudia; Cosi, Elisabetta; Lucente, Fabrizio; Bogoni, Giulia; Biagetti, Giacomo; Fabris, Fabrizio is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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Anemia is extremely common in hospitalized patients who are old and often with multiple diseases. We evaluated 435 consecutive patients admitted in the internal medicine department of a hub hospital and 191 (43.9%) of them were anemic. Demographic, historic and clinical data, laboratory tests, duration of hospitalization, re-admission at 30 days and death were recorded. Patients were stratified by age ( 80 years), anemia severity, and etiology of anemia. The causes of anemia were: iron deficiency in 28 patients, vitamin B~12~ and folic acid deficiencies in 6, chronic inflammatory diseases in 80, chronic kidney disease in 15, and multifactorial in 62. The severity of the clinical picture at admission was significantly worse (__p__ < 0.001), length of hospitalization was longer (__p__ < 0.001) and inversely correlated to the Hb concentration, re-admissions and deaths were more frequent (__p__ 0.017) in anemic compared to non-anemic patients. A specific treatment for anemia was used in 99 patients (36.6%) (transfusions, erythropoietin, iron, vitamin B~12~ and/or folic acid). Anemia (and/or its treatment) was red in the discharge letter only 54 patients. Even if anemia is common, in in
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- Author
- Randi, Maria Luigia; Bertozzi, Irene; Santarossa, Claudia; Cosi, Elisabetta; Lucente, Fabrizio; Bogoni, Giulia; Biagetti, Giacomo; Fabris, Fabrizio
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) (ISSN 2077-0383)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)