Why the study?
Does an elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predict in-hospital mortality in patients with acute heart failure and ejection fraction <50%?
Population
167 acute heart failure patients with an ejection fraction <50%
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
in-hospital
Authors
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May support NLR for in-hospital mortality risk stratification in acute HFrEF; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Does an elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predict in-hospital mortality in patients with acute heart failure and ejection fraction <50%?
An elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio is an independent predictor of short-term in-hospital mortality in patients with acute heart failure and reduced ejection fraction.
Turfan et al. (2014) studied this question.
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