Why the study?
The role of the lactate/albumin ratio in predicting clinical outcomes of critically ill patients with heart failure remained unclear.
Does a higher lactate/albumin ratio predict increased mortality in critically ill patients with heart failure?
Population
4,562 critically ill adult patients with heart failure
Comparison
Quintiles of lactate/albumin ratio
Design
Retrospective database study
Follow-up
1 year
Authors
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L/A ratio may aid prognostication in critically ill HF; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical use.
Does a higher lactate/albumin ratio predict increased mortality in critically ill patients with heart failure?
The lactate/albumin ratio is a strong, positive predictor of both short-term (28-day) and long-term (1-year) all-cause mortality in critically ill patients with heart failure.
Guo et al. (2021) studied this question.
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