title: Dyslipidemia as a long-term marker for survival in pulmonary embolism.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse survival rate after 24 months in consecutive patients with a diagnosis of PE as well as associated factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective cohort study during a follow-up period of two years in a series of consecutive patients with PE.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During the follow-up period, 34 out of 148 patients died (23%). Factors independently associated with reduced survival rate were: creatinine levels > 2 (OR, 8.8; 95% CI, 1.1 - 70.87), previous neoplasm (OR, 8.8; 95% CI, 3.69 - 20.98), dementia (OR, 6.85; 95% CI, 2.1 - 22.33) and dyslipidemia (OR, 5.07; 95% CI, 1.92 - 13.44). Forty four percent of the patients with dyslipidemia died vs. 20.8% of patients without this condition.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In our study dyslipidemia shows as a long-term negative prognostic marker for survival in patients with EP.
authors.affiliation: Medical-Surgical Unit of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain. luisoneumo@hotmail.com
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jara-Palomares
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Otero-Candelera
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Elias-Hernandez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cayuela-Dominguez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ferrer-Galvan
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Alfaro
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Montero
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barrot-Cortes
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D050171:Dyslipidemias / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors