Researchers from College of Medicine Provide Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of Heart Attack (Long-term Disability Level of 1-month Survivors After Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest: a Nationwide Cohort Study In Korea Using Data …): Heart Disorders and Diseases – Heart Attack

2023 MAR 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at South Korea Daily Report -- Research findings on Heart Disorders and Diseases - Heart Attack are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting from Seoul, South Korea, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Recent guidelines identified recovery from cardiac arrest as an additional link in the chain of survival. However, data on the disability level and long-term survivorship in such patients are limited.”

Financial support for this research came from Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the College of Medicine, “We aimed to determine the long-term disability level, including disability type and severity, in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) 1 month after discharge. This nationwide observational study used data from the National Health Insurance Service of Korea. We included adult OHCA patients who presented to the emergency departments (ED) of all hospitals in Korea between 2009 and 2018. The main outcome was disability level between 1 month after discharge and the 2-year follow-up. The average disability level was divided into six grades: most severe (grade 1) to mild (grade 6). Among 224,520 OHCA patients, 25,598 (11.4%) survived at 30 days. After excluding 3143 patients with a follow-up less than 2 years, 22,455 patients were included. Newly-developed disabilities were observed in 2664 patients (11.9%) and were more frequent in 1-year survivors than non-survivors (16.7% vs. 4.4%, p< 0.01). The most common type of disability was encephalopathic (54.2%), followed by renal (16.1%), physical (10.5%), and cardiac (4.2%) disabilities. Grade 1 disability was most frequent, followed by grade 2 and 3 (45.7%, 23.5%, 10.9%, respectively). Among patients who survived at 30 days after OHCA, 11.9% developed disabilities, including encephalopathic, physical, renal, and cardiac disabilities.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Physicians should be aware of the risk of these disabilities and efforts to treat these disabilities in OHCA survivors should be increased.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Long-term Disability Level of 1-month Survivors After Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest: a Nationwide Cohort Study In Korea Using Data From 2009 To 2018. Signa Vitae, 2023;19(1):43-49. Signa Vitae can be contacted at: Mre Press, 14 Robinson Rd #08-01A Far East Finance, Singapore, Singapore.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Won-Young Kim, Ulsan Univ, Asan Medical Center, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Sang-Min Kim, Youn-Jung Kim and Ye-Jee Kim.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.22514/sv.2022.014. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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