Economic sanctions linked to worse health outcomes in scoping review of 32 studies
A scoping review of 32 primary empirical studies finds economic sanctions are predominantly associated with adverse health outcomes, health system ...
Tag: mortality
Urine Output Criteria for Kidney Injury May Need Recalibration, Study Suggests
A reanalysis of nearly 5,700 Swedish intensive care admissions finds that current KDIGO urine output thresholds underestimate mortality at early ...
Nutritional Markers Linked to Mortality Risk in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
A meta-analysis of 49 studies in 30,028 patients links weight loss, low BMI, sarcopenia and other nutritional indicators to higher ...
Mortality risk model for older heart failure patients needs refinement, commentary says
A Matters Arising commentary argues the EHMRG-BI mortality risk model for older adults with acute heart failure is promising but ...
GLP-1 Drug Use Linked to Better Survival in Diabetic Flesh-Eating Infections
A retrospective matched study of 16,792 patients with type 2 diabetes found GLP-1 receptor agonist use before necrotizing soft tissue ...
Nearly half of patients admitted for suspected sepsis do not meet sepsis criteria
A retrospective study of 595 patients admitted for suspected sepsis found that 45% did not meet clinical sepsis criteria, highlighting ...
Takotsubo syndrome cases fell in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic, registry study finds
A nationwide Swedish registry study found that Takotsubo syndrome incidence was 10 percent lower during the COVID-19 pandemic than before ...
Ultrasound-guided catheter thrombolysis shows no clear mortality benefit over anticoagulation
A new meta-analysis of six studies and 1,646 patients finds no significant overall mortality benefit of ultrasound-facilitated catheter directed thrombolysis ...
Low-Dose Aspirin Linked to Lower Early Mortality in Sepsis Patients, but Causality Remains Uncertain
A retrospective MIMIC-IV study of 31,888 sepsis patients found documented low-dose aspirin use was associated with lower early mortality, though ...
Humans kill most cougars in five-year Alberta tracking study of 80 big cats
A five-year radio collar study tracking 80 cougars in west central Alberta found high mortality rates, with humans responsible for ...
Heart Scan Ratio Flags Dangerous Lung Pressure Pattern Before Valve Replacement
A single-center study of 667 TAVR patients found that an echocardiographic TAPSE/PAPs ratio below 0.29 mm/mmHg identifies those at higher ...
Glycolysis Metabolites Linked to Short-Term Mortality After Heart Attack
A study of 724 STEMI patients found that elevated glucose, lactate, pyruvate and citrate were each significantly associated with death ...
Bloody Diarrhoea, Vomiting and Low Body Weight Mark Canine Parvovirus Cases in Ghanaian Hospital Study
A cross-sectional study of 211 dogs at a Ghanaian veterinary teaching hospital found that haemorrhagic diarrhoea, vomiting, complete loss of ...
Folic acid food fortification linked to lower COVID-19 incidence in country-level analysis
A country-level study in BMC Public Health found that mandatory folic acid food fortification was associated with roughly 70 percent ...
Mortality gaps persist for North Korean refugees in South Korea, study finds
A nationwide matched cohort study found North Korean refugee men in South Korea had higher mortality than matched residents over ...
Stress Hyperglycemia Ratio Predicts Death in Atrial Fibrillation Only in Patients With Normal Glucose
A MIMIC-IV cohort study of 4,365 ICU patients with atrial fibrillation found that a high stress hyperglycemia ratio remained an ...
Blood sedimentation rate predicts death risk in dogs with chronic kidney disease
A South Korean retrospective study of 127 dogs with chronic kidney disease found that an erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 16 ...
Deaths from drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Pakistan fell 41% over three decades
A Global Burden of Disease 2021 analysis finds that age-standardised mortality attributable to antimicrobial-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Pakistan dropped by ...
CD36 Gene Variant Linked to Higher Death Risk in Childhood Cerebral Malaria
Sudanese children with cerebral malaria who carried the CD36 +188 G allele faced roughly eight times the risk of death ...
Repeated bedside checks reveal hidden consciousness in brain injury patients
A study of 213 brain injury patients found that repeated CRS-R assessments and team consensus reclassified 11.5 percent of initially ...
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