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SAN ANTONIO — The odds of inpatient mortality were nearly four times higher among geriatric adults than adults aged younger than 75 years who were admitted to a hospital primarily for inflammatory bowel disease, according to data presented at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting.

PARIS — Risk stratification thresholds for high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I were able to safely and effectively identify patients with ACS and at least 2 hours of symptoms as low risk regardless of sex and age, according to data from the HiSTORIC trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

IV infusion serelaxin in patients hospitalized with acute HF did not improve CV mortality at 180 days or worsening HF at 5 days when compared with placebo in the RELAX-AHF-2 trial.

A variety of interventions that were deemed effective based on clinical trials were not useful for treating patients hospitalized with pneumonia and were associated with adverse events, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

ICU patients colonized with Acinetobacter baumannii upon admission were more likely to develop subsequent positive clinical cultures for the bacterium and die during their hospital stay, according to findings from a retrospective cohort analysis.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Clostridium difficile infection led to increased mortality and health care resource utilization among patients with cirrhosis, according to data presented at ICAAC 2014.