Mortality

Patients with large vessel occlusion strokes who underwent mechanical thrombectomy had lower mortality rates and higher rates of routine discharge in 2019 compared with 2020, although mortality rates shifted with surges of COVID-19.

Pediatric cancer survivors appeared at increased risk for late mortality associated with modifiable chronic health conditions, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Among patients with solid tumors, septic shock was associated with a 69.4% 28-day mortality rate, according to a study published in CHEST.

In the United States, there were more than 600 excess deaths among physicians from March 2020 to December 2021, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Patients who were obese, overweight or underweight were at an increased risk for AKI, compared with patients who had a normal BMI, according to data published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition.

Greater intake of ultra-processed foods was associated with an increased risk for overall and site-specific cancer, particularly ovarian cancer, as well as cancer-related mortality, a study published in eClinicalMedicine found.

Compared with nonsurgical treatment, surgical treatment of Medicare patients with single-level lumbar stenosis was associated with lower mortality rates and costs at 2 years, according to published results.

Men and women admitted to the ICU with diagnoses uncommon for their sex faced poorer outcomes, according to study results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

NEW ORLEANS — Looking at 185 countries, a projection presented at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exhibition suggests the global burden of non-Hodgkin lymphoma will increase by 778,000 cases by 2040.

TAMPA, Fla. — Aspirin as a thromboprophylaxis agent was noninferior to low-molecular-weight heparin for all-cause mortality in patients with extremity, pelvic or acetabular fractures.