Chronic Medical Conditions and Risk of Sepsis

We sought to determine the associations between baseline chronic medical conditions and future risk of sepsis. Longitudinal cohort study using the 30,239 community-dwelling participants of the REGARDS cohort. We determined associations between baseline chronic medical conditions and incident sepsis...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 7; no. 10; p. e48307
Main Authors:	Wang, Henry E., Shapiro, Nathan I., Griffin, Russell, Safford, Monika M., Judd, Suzanne, Howard, George
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 31.10.2012 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Aged Alcohol Alcoholic beverages Atrial fibrillation Cardiac arrhythmia Cardiovascular disease Cerebral infarction Chronic Disease - epidemiology Chronic kidney failure Cohort Studies Coronary artery Coronary artery disease Coronary heart disease Diabetes Diabetes mellitus Disease prevention Dyslipidemia Emergency medical care Epidemiology Female Fibrillation Health aspects Health Behavior Health care Heart diseases Hospitalization Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Hospitals Humans Hypertension Infarction Infection Infections Inflammation Inflammatory response Intensive care Kidney transplantation Laboratories Lung diseases Male Medical records Medicine Metabolic disorders Middle Aged Mortality Myocardial infarction Pneumonia Population Preventive medicine Public health Racial differences Risk Risk factors Sepsis Sepsis - complications Sepsis - epidemiology Sepsis - therapy Smoking Stroke Systemic inflammatory response syndrome Thromboembolism Thrombosis Tobacco Urinary tract infections Vascular diseases Vital signs Alabama United States > US
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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