High Dietary Sodium Intake is Associated with Shorter Event-Free Survival in Patients with Heart Failure and Comorbid Diabetes

Zyad T. Saleh, Terry A. Lennie, Abdullah S. Alhurani, Issa M. Almansour, Hamza Alduraidi and Debra K. Moser

Clinical Nursing Research, 2021, vol. 30, issue 2, 154-160

Abstract: The aim was to determine whether 24-hour urine sodium excretion predicted event-free survival of patients with heart failure (HF) and diabetes mellitus (DM). Twenty-four hour urine sodium, as an indicator of dietary sodium, was collected from 107 patients with HF and comorbid DM. Patients were followed for a median period of 337 days to determine time to the first event of either all-cause hospitalization or cardiac-related mortality. There were 44 patients (41%) who had an event of death or hospitalization. Cox regression showed that higher urine sodium (>3.8 gm/day) was associated with 2.8 times greater risk for an event than lower urine sodium after controlling for age, gender, New York Heart Association class (I/II vs. III/IV), left ventricular ejection fraction, and body mass index. These data suggest that dietary sodium restriction may be beneficial for patients with HF and DM.

Keywords: heart failure; diabetes mellitus; dietary sodium intake; health outcome (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1054773819888743

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