Table 5.
90-Day Mortality of Patients According to Diagnostic Grouping and D-Dimer Level*
| D-Dimer Level |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≥0.5 mg/L |
<0.5 mg/L |
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| Diagnosis | n | Number of Patients (%) | 90-day Mortality | Number of Patients (%) | 90-day Mortality |
| Cancer | 147 | 107 (73%) | 28.0% | 40 (27%) | 12.5% |
| Unspecified breathing abnormality | 67 | 27 (40%) | 18.5% | 40 (60%) | 10.0% |
| COPD | 138 | 67 (49%) | 10.4% | 71 (51%) | 7.0% |
| Infection | 487 | 333 (68%) | 9.9% | 154 (32%) | 5.2% |
| Hypertension | 184 | 84 (46%) | 7.1% | 100 (54%) | 0.0% |
| Heart failure | 74 | 49 (66%) | 24.5% | 25 (44%) | 0.0% |
| VTE | 72 | 60 (83%) | 6.7% | 12 (17%) | 0.0% |
| Stroke | 60 | 26 (43%) | 15.4% | 34 (57% | 0.0% |
| Anemia | 42 | 28 (67%) | 21.4% | 14 (33%) | 0.0% |
| Acute myocardial infarction | 42 | 19 (45%) | 15.8% | 23 (55%) | 0.0% |
| TIA | 32 | 14 (44%) | 0.0% | 18 (56%) | 0.0% |
| Unspecified soft tissue disorder | 27 | 19 (70%) | 0.0% | 8 (30%) | 0.0% |
| Functional GI disorder | 14 | 10 (71%) | 40.0% | 4 (29%) | 0.0% |
| None of the above | 718 | 230 (32%) | 2.6% | 488 (68%) | 0.0% |
COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; GI = gastrointestinal; VTE = venous thromboembolism; TIA = transient ischemic attack.
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Sorted by mortality of patients with normal D-dimer levels.