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Impact of alcohol use disorder on stroke risk in geriatric patients with prediabetes: A nationwide analysis by Divyank Patel; Zainab Gandhi; Rupak Desai; Jilmil Raina; Vikram Itare; Fariah Asha Haque; Taha Saeed; Neelesh Gupta; Zeeshan Mansuri; Rajesh Sachdeva; Gautam Kumar is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: With rising trends of prediabetes in the geriatric population, we aim to assess the impact of alcohol use disorder (aud) on the outcomes of patients with prediabetes. ## Methods: Hospitalisations amongst the patients (≥65 years) with prediabetes were identified with a diagnosis of aud and in-hospital stroke using the national inpatient sample database (2007-2014). we compared demographics, comorbidities, all-cause mortality, stroke rate and resource utilisation in the elderly prediabetes patients with vs without aud. primary outcomes of interest were all-cause mortality and stroke rate, whereas secondary outcomes were the length of stay (days), disposition and resource utilisation in the aud cohort as compared to the non-aud cohort. ## Results: We had a total of 1.7 million hospitalisations amongst elderly patients with prediabetes, 2.8% (n = 47 962) had aud. the aud cohort was more often younger (71 vs 77 years), male (74.1% vs 43.5%) and nonelectively (84.5% vs 78.3%) admitted than non-aud cohort. the aud cohort more often consisted of african americans (9.0% vs 6.6%) and hispanics (5.3% vs 5.1%) than non-aud cohort. the aud cohort showed higher rates of smoking, d
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- Author
- Divyank Patel; Zainab Gandhi; Rupak Desai; Jilmil Raina; Vikram Itare; Fariah Asha Haque; Taha Saeed; Neelesh Gupta; Zeeshan Mansuri; Rajesh Sachdeva; Gautam Kumar
- Publisher
- Hindawi Limited
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)