Mortality Risk

Adults with prediabetes or diabetes have a reduced risk for all-cause mortality if they walk more than 10,000 steps per day, according to study findings published in Diabetes Care.

Participating in leisure-time activities like playing tennis, swimming laps, jogging or walking may help lower the risk for death in older adults, according to researchers.

Higher body fat, whether determined by percentage, fat mass, fat mass index or visceral adipose tissue, was associated with higher risk for mortality among adults, according to study data.

Drinking just 2 cups of tea every day may lower one’s mortality risk, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Mortality rates were significantly higher among veterans with drug-resistant epilepsy compared with other veterans and the general United States population, researchers reported in JAMA Neurology.

Biomarkers collected on the day of traumatic brain injury had significant prognostic value for death and unfavorable outcome but not for incomplete recovery at 6 months, according to a study published in The Lancet Neurology.

Symptoms of insomnia and sleep apnea were associated with a 56% increased risk for all-cause mortality, researchers reported in Sleep Epidemiology.

Adults in Finland and Sweden with diabetes who underwent sleeve gastrectomy were more likely to die from any cause compared with those who underwent gastric bypass, according to a study published in Diabetes Care.

Outcomes among adults without anemia with and without iron deficiency presenting for elective cardiac surgery.

According to presented results, patients with hepatitis C who undergo total joint arthroplasty and are Childs-Pugh class B or C have increased 2-year mortality rates compared with patients who are Childs-Pugh class A.