• Am J Emerg Med · Mar 2023

    Association of admission lactate with mortality in adult patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia.

    • Dong Huang, Dingxiu He, Rong Yao, Wen Wang, Qiao He, Zhenru Wu, Yujun Shi, and Zongan Liang.
    • Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China; Institute of Clinical Pathology, Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, NHC, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
    • Am J Emerg Med. 2023 Mar 1; 65: 879487-94.

    PurposeThe present study was conducted to investigate the association of admission lactate with mortality in severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP).MethodsWe performed a retrospective, observational, cohort study on adult SCAP patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) in West China Hospital of Sichuan University between December 2011 and December 2018. The primary outcome was hospital mortality. Univariate and then multivariate analysis were performed to identify independent risk factors for hospital mortality. The association of admission lactate categories with hospital mortality was examined in three logistic regression models and Kaplan-Meier plots. We also applied restricted cubic splines to estimate the potential non-linear associations.ResultsIn total, 2275 SCAP patients were included. Admission lactate remained a significant factor for mortality after multivariate regression (OR: 1.085; 95% CI: 1.033,1.141; by continuous variable). After lactate was categorized into quartiles and the confounders were fully adjusted, compared with the quartile 1, ORs (95% CIs) of hospital mortality for quartile 2, quartile 3 and quartile 4 were 1.001 (0.759-1.321), 1.153 (0.877-1.516) and 1.593 (1.202-2.109), respectively (P for trend =0.001). Survival curves indicated that elevated lactate was associated with poor prognosis (P < 0.001). Moreover, this association was non-linear, indicating that increased lactate has the most notable impact on mortality within the range of 1.5 to 4 mmol/L (P non-linear: 0.029 for hospital mortality; 0.004 for ICU mortality).ConclusionElevated admission lactate has a significant, independent, and potentially non-linear association with increased mortality in SCAP patients.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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