Measurement of myocardial extracellular volume using cardiac dual-energy computed tomography in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy: a comparison of different methods

The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging - To clarify the consistency and efficiency of four methods for myocardial extracellular volume (ECV) measurement (manual method using...     

Relation of red cell distribution width with HAS-BLED score in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation

BackgroundNumerous researchers have shown that there is a close correlation between red cell distribution width (RDW) and cardiovascular disease such as heart failure, coronary heart disease, and atrial fibrillation. This study was designated to investigate the correlation between RDW and the Hypertension, Abnormal renal/liver function, Stroke, Bleeding history or predisposition, Labile international normalized ratio, Elderly, Drugs/alcohol (HAS-BLED) score.MethodsThe HAS-BLED scores of 251 hospitalized patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation were calculated and the receiver operating characteristics were used to evaluate the predictive value of RDW on high HAS-BLED score (≥3 scores). Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the independent predictor of high HAS-BLED scores.ResultsCorrelation analysis between RDW and HAS-BLED scores showed the RDW was positively correlated with HAS-BLED score, with r=0.393 (P<0.0001). The RDW of the high HAS-BLED score group was higher than that of the no-high HAS-BLED score group. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of RDW was 0.796 (0.740–0.844, P<0.0001) to predict a high HAS-BLED score, and multiple logistic regression analysis showed that a high RDW value could be used as an independent predictor of high HAS-BLED.ConclusionsRDW value is associated with HAS-BLED value, and can be used as the independent predictive factor of high HAS-BLED scores.