Mortality

Patients in the ICU for pneumonia with vs. without alcohol misuse faced heightened odds for mortality, mechanical ventilation and extended hospital stays, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

BOSTON — Replacing mayonnaise and margarine with olive oil may reduce the risk for mortality from dementia among adults in the United States, according to study results presented at NUTRITION 2023.

Disparities in mortality due to asthma in the United States vary based on whether they occurred in a hospital, ethnicity or race, and age of the patient, according to a letter published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Compared with their peers, people with HIV experienced a smaller decline in mortality risk from COVID-19 during the omicron wave of the pandemic, researchers reported.

Lower visceral fat area was linked to a higher mortality risk for patients with several cancer types, especially colorectal and gastric, according to the results of research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

WASHINGTON — Fine particulate matter pollution exposure over 5 years is behind heightened mortality risk in Black patients with COPD, according to an abstract presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Fewer patients with community-acquired pneumonia using corticosteroids vs. standard care needed mechanical ventilation, but mortality rates did not differ between both groups, according to study results published in CHEST.

Patients tested with the DecisionDx-Melanoma 31-gene expression profile test experienced 29% lower melanoma-specific mortality and 17% lower overall mortality compared with untested patients, according to a study.

In 2021, unintentional opioid toxicity was attributed to one in 22 deaths among all adults and one in 10 deaths among those aged 15 to 19 years, a recent study found.

Deaths caused by firearms and poisonings increased substantially in the United States from 1999 to 2020, highlighting an urgent need for public health interventions, according to researchers.