European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

As the prevalence of heart failure(HF) is increasing, so is the incidence of acute decompensated heart failure(ADHF) leading to hospital admission. With improvements in treatment for ADHF, more people are surviving the ordeal of ADHF and the focus has now shifted to the duration of stay in hospital, with patients eager to go home and resume their daily activities. in literature there is dearth of markers predicting the hospital stay duration, which has traditionally been sodium levels in sodium. Recently BUN: Creatinine ratio (BCR)is garnering significance as prognostic predictor in heart failure. Method: We did an observational study to study the effect of BCR at admission on the duration of hospital stay in HF patients. Results: BCR is not significantly associated with duration of hospital stay (p= 0.595), but alcoholism (p=0.026) and blood urea nitrogen (p= 0.040) were significantly associated with the duration of hospital stay in HF