The Soluble Interleukin‐2 Receptor Predicts Mortality in Older Hospitalized Men
1997
BACKGROUND: There is an inverse relationship between the soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) and serum albumin, cholesterol, transferrin, prealbumin, and hemoglobin. Inasmuch as low serum albumin and cholesterol have been associated with excess mortality, we hypothesized that elevated sIL-2R would predict mortality in older adults.
OBJECTIVE: To determine if elevated sIL-2R predicts mortality in patients on a geriatric rehabilitation unit.
DESIGN: Prospective cohort.
SETTING: University-affiliated VA medical center.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two male patients aged greater than 60 years admitted to a geriatric rehabilitation unit. Patients with severe hepatic or renal disease were excluded.
MEASUREMENTS: We measured serum albumin, prealbumin, cholesterol, transferrin, hemoglobin, body mass index (BMI), C-reactive protein (CRP), and sIL-2R upon admission. Subjects were followed for 1 year.
RESULTS: Low serum albumin, prealbumin, and hemoglobin and high sIL-2R and CRP predicted 1-year mortality on univariate analysis. When these predictors were included as covariates in a Cox regression model, only sIL-2R was a significant independent predictor of mortality (P = .043). Multiple linear regression with the above covariates revealed that only sIL-2R predicted time to death at (P = .003).
CONCLUSIONS: High sIL-2R and CRP and low albumin, prealbumin, and hemoglobin predicted mortality using univariate analysis on a rehabilitation unit. However, with multivariate analysis, sIL-2R was the sole predictor of mortality. J Am Geriatr Soc 45:1362–1364, 1997.
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