Abstract
BACKGROUND The correlation between serum creatinine levels and the long-term prognosis of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has not yet been systematically investigated. This study aimed to evaluate the association between long-term prognosis and serum creatinine levels in patients after PCI. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was an observational cohort study of 2533 patients who received PCI and completed serum creatinine and other tests in China. The study's primary prognostic indicators were the frequency of clinical adverse events, all-cause death, cardiac death, acute myocardial infarction, and stroke. All-cause death referred to death from all causes during the follow-up period, whereas cardiac death was death due to cardiac injury resulting in severe cardiac dysfunction or failure. Clinical events included death, ischemia, and stroke. Yao et al completed the entire study and uploaded the data to the DATADRYAD website. We used only this data for secondary analysis. RESULTS The study involved 2533 participants, with a mean age of 59.9±11.1 years and a median follow-up of 29.8 months. The analysis, controlling for confounding factors, revealed a positive correlation between serum creatinine and all-cause death (OR: 2.178, 95% CI: 1.317-3.603, P<0.05), which was confirmed by the results of sensitivity analysis (P for trend <0.05). However, no direct linear correlation was found between serum creatinine and acute myocardial infarction, cardiac death, or stroke. CONCLUSIONS There was a linear correlation between serum creatinine and all-cause death in the long-term prognosis of patients after PCI, independent of acute myocardial infarction, cardiac death, and stroke.