Marcadores pronósticos de reingreso y mortalidad en pacientes con insuficiencia cardiaca en el hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo periodo 2019-2020 Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Abstract

Heart failure (HF) is a controllable chronic disease that affects a large number of Ecuadorian population, which is why it represents an important health problem. Its incidence has been increasing due to factors associated with age and polypharmacy in patients with heart diseases. The morbidity and mortality of this disease is high with a significant increase in its number of cases. Globally, it represents between 1 and 2% of the total adult population. According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), indicates that the mortality rate of HF in 2015 was 6.35 per 100,000 inhabitants and worldwide it represents one of the major causes. The present study was carried out by collecting data from the HTMC statistics department, with a sample of 383 patients of both sexes and different ages, who were diagnosed with heart failure in the emergency area or by outpatient consultation at Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital of Guayaquil from January 2019 to December 2020, in which we seek to determine the prognostic impact of clinical markers such as sodium, potassium, hemoglobin and left ventricular ejection fraction. In addition to demographic factors such as the age and sex of the patients. Key