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Table 3 Factors independently associated with occurrence of cardiac events

From: Influence of dyskalemia at admission and early dyskalemia correction on survival and cardiac events of critically ill patients

 

aOR

95% CI

p value

Potassium level at admission

 Serious hypokalemia (K+ < 2.5 mmol/L)

1.002

0.595–1.585

1.00

 Moderate hypokalemia (2.5 ≤ K+ < 3 mmol/L)

1.473

1.130–1.921

< 0.01

 Mild hypokalemia (3 ≤ K+ < 3.5 mmol/L)

1.065

0.914–1.242

0.42

 No dyskalemia (3.5 ≤ K+ ≤ 5 mmol/L)

1

Reference

< 0.01*

 Mild hyperkalemia (5 < K+ ≤ 6 mmol/L)

1.228

1.035–1.456

0.02

 Moderate hyperkalemia (6 < K+ ≤ 7 mmol/L)

1.495

1.153–2.071

< 0.01

 Serious hyperkalemia (K+ > 7 mmol/L)

1.894

1.158–3.100

0.01

Renal replacement therapy day 1 or day 2

1.126

0.914–1.388

< 0.01

Age > 60 years

2.316

2.062–2.602

< 0.01

Underlying disease

 Cardiac

1.809

1.579–2.073

< 0.01

 Immunosuppression

0.761

0.651–0.890

< 0.01

Admission category, medical

1.442

1.244–1.671

< 0.01

Main symptom admission

 Shock and multiple organ failure

1.428

1.210–1.685

< 0.01

 Acute respiratory failure and COPD exacerbation

1.133

0.956–1.342

0.15

 Acute renal failure

0.752

0.521–0.946

0.02

 Coma

1.559

1.298–1.873

< 0.01

 Trauma, monitoring, scheduled surgery

1

Ref

< 0.01

SOFA score without points for renal failure

1.185

1.166–1.205

< 0.01

  1. Abbreviations: COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment
  2. Adjusted odds ratio (aOR) on age above 60 years, chronic illness (cardiac, renal and immune-depression), main cause of admission, SOFA without renal score and medical critical disease, and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI)
  3. *The P value indicates that there are significant differences overall between level of kalemia