Mortality risk factors in heart failure patients with atrial fibrillation

Introduction: Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure are two cardiovascular disease types that are very common. An abnormal heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation (AF) is characterized by erratic electrical activity in the cardiac atria. The most prevalent sustained cardiac arrhythmia is AF. Atrial fibrillation affects ۳۷,۵۷۴ million people globally (۰.۵۱% of the population), and the number of instances has increased by ۳۳% during the past ۲۰ years. The risk of cardiac failure and early mortality is increased by atrial fibrillation. As many as one-third of people with AF get heart failure. Defining the priorities of community health and monitoring health promotion can both be done by collecting data on various causes of death.Materials and Methods: In this study, we use a dataset. In this dataset, the demographic characteristics and clinical data of ۵۳۱ atrial fibrillation patients with heart failure were analyzed to determine factors related to survival. We used the Chi-square test to analyze qualitative data and the T-test to analyze quantitative data in SPSS software version ۲۶. p-value <۰.۰۵ was considered significant.Results: Among the ۵۳۱ examined patients, ۹۲ were dead, and ۴۳۹ were alive. A total of ۳۹ demographic variables and clinical data (۶ qualitative and ۳۳ quantitative) were analyzed. ۱۶ variables had a significant relationship with the survival or non-survival of patients. None of the qualitative variables showed a significant relationship with mortality, and from demographic characteristics, only age showed a significant relationship with mortality.Discussion and Conclusion: Mortality risk increase with higher NT-pro BNP, anion gap, age, blood potassium, neutrophil, leukocyte, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), prothrombin time (PT), international normalized ratio (INR), respiratory rate, heart rate and lower calcium Blood, lymphocyte, basophil, blood ph and blood bicarbonate in these patients.