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Compared with patients on dialysis who received amoxicillin-based treatment, those who received azithromycin treatment were at an increased risk for sudden cardiac death, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

Patients who experience AKI during hospitalization showed an increased risk for 90- and 365-day all-cause and selected-cause rehospitalization and death following discharge, according to data in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Patients who experience AKI during hospitalization showed an increased risk for 90- and 365-day all-cause and selected-cause rehospitalization and death following discharge, according to data in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

AUSTIN, Texas —Patients on dialysis who are hyporesponsive to anemia treatment have a higher risk for hospitalizations and death, according to data presented here.

COVID-19 remained deadlier than influenza this past season, although the difference in mortality shrunk compared with past years, according to a study comparing outcomes of patients hospitalized with the illnesses.

Treatment with a monoclonal antibody within 2 days of a COVID-19 diagnosis reduced the risk for hospitalization or death by almost 40%, according to a study that assessed patient outcomes over a nearly 2-year period.

The United States continues to have significantly higher excess death rates compared with similarly high-income European countries, and this gap widened during the pandemic, according to study results published in PLoS One.

From 2002 to 2021, the rate of drug overdose death among people aged 65 years or older quadrupled, according to data published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A decades-long study that enrolled participants in the 1940s found that contracting a lower respiratory tract infection in early childhood was associated with a higher risk for premature death from respiratory disease in adulthood.

Greater eGFR variability predicts an increased risk of death, dementia, disability and CVD events among older and healthy adults, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.