IJCS | Volume 31, Nº2, March / April 2018

94 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Costs of medications Costs of laboratory tests Costs of complementary imaging tests Common costs Total costs Costs (Brazilian reals) Number of risk factors Figure 1 – Average costs stratified by patients categorized by number of cardiovascular risk factors (in Brazilian reals) Barbosa et al. Impact of risk factors on MRS costs Int J Cardiovasc Sci. 2018;31(2)90-96 Original Article Table 3 – Hospitalization costs (in Brazilian reals) by number of cardiovascular risk factors Number of cardiovascular risk factors 1 2 3 4 5 6 p Medications 1,809.58 3,358.82 4,372.45 5,461.54 4,090.17 7,661.63 0.946 Laboratory tests 451.24 530.30 613.99 563.60 601.21 824.16 0.685 Complementary imaging tests 284.30 547.22 609.90 534.02 598.29 872.86 0.448 Materials 2,170.45 2,181.64 2,535.56 2,616.95 2,213.19 3,279.91 0.600 Professionals 5,835.67 7,346.73 7,996.76 9,137.31 8,276.91 12,874.42 0.393 Common costs 3,591.97 4,415.69 5,100.86 6,307.44 5,558.16 10,585.36 0.186 Total costs 14,143.22 18,380.40 21,229.51 24,620.86 21,337.92 36,098.35 0.441 Table 4 – Complications during hospitalization by number of cardiovascular risk factors Number of cardiovascular risk factors 1 2 3 4 5 6 p Infectious complications 1 5 11 9 7 3 0.763 Cardiovascular complications 1 6 11 12 6 1 0.984 Arrhythmias 2 3 8 5 6 2 0.329 Bleeding 0 3 7 6 1 0 0.664 General complications 3 13 35 23 17 5 0.317 Death 1 4 11 6 3 2 0.998