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. 2021 Jun 15;1(1):oeab001.
doi: 10.1093/ehjopen/oeab001. eCollection 2021 Aug.

Causes of hospitalization in the USA between 2005 and 2018

Husam M Salah  1 , Abdul Mannan Khan Minhas  2 , Muhammad Shahzeb Khan  3 , Ambarish Pandey  4 , Erin D Michos  5 , Robert J Mentz  6   7 , Marat Fudim  6   7
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Causes of hospitalization in the USA between 2005 and 2018

Husam M Salah et al. Eur Heart J Open. .

Abstract

In this report, we identify the 10 most common causes of hospitalizations in the USA in 2005-2018 using the discharge data from the National Inpatient Sample database. We show that sepsis has been the leading cause of hospitalizations in the USA followed by heart failure, which has consistently been within the three most common causes of hospitalizations since 2005. In addition, we show a high burden of cardiovascular diseases as a cause of hospitalization over the study period with a consistent presence of cardiac arrhythmias as one of the top 10 causes of hospitalizations in the USA and emergence of acute myocardial infarction as one of the top 10 causes after 2014.

Keywords: Heart failure; Hospitalizations; Most common; Sepsis; Causes.

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Most common causes of hospitalizations between 2005 and 2018.
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Figure 1
Most common cardiovascular causes of hospitalizations between 2005 and 2018. *Following categories have been used interchangeably for the figure: congestive heart failure (non-hypertensive) and heart failure.
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Figure 2
Most common non-cardiovascular causes of hospitalizations between 2005 and 2018. *Following categories have been used interchangeably for the figure: (1) pneumonia (except that caused by tuberculosis or sexually transmitted disease) and pneumonia (except that caused by tuberculosis); (2) other complications of birth, puerperium affecting management of mother, and complications specified during childbirth; and (3) septicaemia (except in labor) and septicaemia; Ob, obstetrics.
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