Monique E Cho1,2, Jared L Hansen3,4, Brian C Sauer3,4, Alfred K Cheung5,2, Adhish Agarwal2, Tom Greene4. 1. Renal Section, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah monique.cho@hsc.utah.edu. 2. Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. 3. Informatics, Decision-Enhancement, and Analytic Sciences Center (IDEAS 2.0), Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah. 4. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah. 5. Renal Section, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: CKD is an independent risk factor for heart failure. Iron dysmetabolism potentially contributes to heart failure, but this relationship has not been well characterized in CKD. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: We performed a historical cohort study using data from the Veterans Affairs Corporate Data Warehouse to evaluate the relationship between iron status and heart failure hospitalization. We identified a CKD cohort with at least one set of iron indices between 2006 and 2015. The first available date of serum iron indices was identified as the study index date. The cohort was divided into four iron groups on the basis of the joint quartiles of serum transferrin saturation (shown in percent) and ferritin (shown in nanograms per milliliter): reference (16%-28%, 55-205 ng/ml), low iron (0.4%-16%, 0.9-55 ng/ml), high iron (28%-99.5%, 205-4941 ng/ml), and function iron deficiency (0.8%-16%, 109-2783 ng/ml). We compared 1-year heart failure hospitalization risk between the iron groups using matching weights derived from multinomial propensity score models and Poisson rate-based regression. RESULTS: A total of 78,551 veterans met the eligibility criteria. The covariates were well balanced among the iron groups after applying the propensity score weights (n=31,819). One-year adjusted relative rate for heart failure hospitalization in the iron deficiency groups were higher compared with the reference group (low iron: 1.29 [95% confidence interval, 1.19 to 1.41]; functional iron deficiency: 1.25 [95% confidence interval, 1.13 to 1.37]). The high-iron group was associated with lower 1-year relative rate of heart failure hospitalization (0.82; 95% confidence interval, 0.72 to 0.92). Furthermore, the association between iron deficiency and heart failure hospitalization risk remained consistent regardless of the diabetes status or heart failure history at baseline. CONCLUSIONS: Iron deficiency, regardless of cause, was associated with higher heart failure hospitalization risk in CKD. Higher iron status was associated with lower heart failure hospitalization risks.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: CKD is an independent risk factor for heart failure. Iron dysmetabolism potentially contributes to heart failure, but this relationship has not been well characterized in CKD. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: We performed a historical cohort study using data from the Veterans Affairs Corporate Data Warehouse to evaluate the relationship between iron status and heart failure hospitalization. We identified a CKD cohort with at least one set of iron indices between 2006 and 2015. The first available date of serum iron indices was identified as the study index date. The cohort was divided into four iron groups on the basis of the joint quartiles of serum transferrin saturation (shown in percent) and ferritin (shown in nanograms per milliliter): reference (16%-28%, 55-205 ng/ml), low iron (0.4%-16%, 0.9-55 ng/ml), high iron (28%-99.5%, 205-4941 ng/ml), and function iron deficiency (0.8%-16%, 109-2783 ng/ml). We compared 1-year heart failure hospitalization risk between the iron groups using matching weights derived from multinomial propensity score models and Poisson rate-based regression. RESULTS: A total of 78,551 veterans met the eligibility criteria. The covariates were well balanced among the iron groups after applying the propensity score weights (n=31,819). One-year adjusted relative rate for heart failure hospitalization in the iron deficiency groups were higher compared with the reference group (low iron: 1.29 [95% confidence interval, 1.19 to 1.41]; functional iron deficiency: 1.25 [95% confidence interval, 1.13 to 1.37]). The high-iron group was associated with lower 1-year relative rate of heart failure hospitalization (0.82; 95% confidence interval, 0.72 to 0.92). Furthermore, the association between iron deficiency and heart failure hospitalization risk remained consistent regardless of the diabetes status or heart failure history at baseline. CONCLUSIONS: Iron deficiency, regardless of cause, was associated with higher heart failure hospitalization risk in CKD. Higher iron status was associated with lower heart failure hospitalization risks.
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