Title: Hospitalisation characteristics of metabolic syndrome patients

Authors: Nimisha Patel; Riddhi Vyas; Shankar Srinivasan; Dinesh Mital

Addresses: Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Health Professions, Rutgers University, Newark NJ, USA ' Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers – School of Health Professions, 675 Hoes Lane West, 8th Floor, Rm. 836K, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA ' Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers – School of Health Professions, 675 Hoes Lane West, 8th Floor, Rm. 836K, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA ' Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Health Professions, Rutgers University, 675 Hoes Lane, Room 836P, Research Tower, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

Abstract: Metabolic syndrome is a combination of disorders and in conjunction increases the risk of developing several chronic diseases. This study sought to determine the overall in hospitalisation characteristics of metabolic syndrome and non-metabolic syndrome patients. This was a cross sectional study with descriptive analysis from Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) National Inpatient Sample (NIS) dataset from 2012 to 2014. Compared with non-metabolic syndrome patients, metabolic syndrome patient's length of stay was longer at mean 5.10 days versus mean 4.57 days for non-metabolic syndrome patients. Additionally, the total in-hospital charge for metabolic syndrome patients was 30% higher than non-metabolic syndrome patients. Risk of developing metabolic syndrome in female was slightly elevated than in men. Having metabolic syndrome in white ethnic group was high and exhibited substantial differences among different ethnicity. Lower socio-economic status patients were 37% more prevalent in having metabolic syndrome than the higher income patients.

Keywords: metabolic syndrome; non-metabolic syndrome; hospital cost; length of stay.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2021.118760

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2021 Vol.13 No.6, pp.449 - 460

Received: 25 Sep 2019
Accepted: 05 Oct 2019
Published online: 05 Nov 2021 *

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