Research Article
Association between Elevated Plasma Vitamin B12 and Short-Term Mortality in Elderly Patients Hospitalized in an Internal Medicine Unit
Table 2
Main causes of hospitalization.
| | | Total (%) | Elevated B12 (%) | Normal B12 (%) |
| | Anemia | 7 (2.1) | 4 (2.4) | 3 (1.8) | | Alteration of general state | 66 (20) | 30 (18.2) | 36 (21.8) | | Dyspnea | 18 (5.5) | 10 (6.1) | 8 (4.8) | | Acute heart failure | 42 (12.7) | 18 (10.9) | 24 (14.5) | | Sepsis | 111 (33.6) | 59 (35.8) | 52 (31.5) | | Acute kidney failure | 15 (4.5) | 8 (4.8) | 7 (4.2) | | Hypertension | 8 (2.4) | 1 (0.6) | 7 (4.2) |
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