Mortality

Kidney dysfunction may play a key role in hospital death and the outcome of thrombolysis in patients who have experienced a stroke, according to a recently published study.

Hearing loss was associated with an increased risk for mortality, but the risk was reduced among those who regularly used hearing aids, according to a recent study.

Intradialytic hypotension and mortality in adolescents and young adults with kidney failure requiring hemodialysis share no significant connection, a recently published study found.

Breast cancer screening and treatments in 2019 were both associated with more than 50% reduction in U.S. breast cancer mortality compared with interventions utilized over 4 decades ago, according to analysis results published in JAMA.

Treating infants with azithromycin at well-child visits did not reduce mortality during a yearslong study in Burkina Faso, according to findings published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Individuals faced a high risk for respiratory mortality 5 to 7 days after being exposed to ultrafine particle pollution, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Among older adults who survived a community-acquired pneumonia infection, the risk for cardiovascular mortality 1 year after hospitalization decreased with guideline-concordant antibiotic therapy, according to results published in CHEST.

SAN DIEGO — Personalizing treatment using both geriatric assessment and genetic profiling may decrease rates of early mortality among older patients with acute myeloid leukemia, according to a study from ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Homeless veterans with lung or colorectal cancers had higher mortality rates than housed veterans, study data published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Between 1990 and 2019, global age-standardized incidence and mortality rates of mesothelioma went down, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.