Mortality

A recent study showed that the risk of death among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 was substantially lower during the later period of omicron variant predominance compared with earlier omicron and delta predominance.

Although the prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection in the U.S. continued its long-term downward trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients who were infected saw high treatment costs and increased mortality, a study found.

Low levels of physical activity, such as 10 minutes of walking per day, may reduce all-cause mortality in those aged 85 years or more compared with those who do not walk at all, a speaker reported.

Due to a significant association between the urine to phosphate-to-creatinine ratio and mortality among individuals without chronic kidney disease, researchers suggest this may be a predictor for future adverse events in this population.

Compared with men, women are at a higher risk of all-cause mortality in the first 5 years following dialysis initiation, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Although percent changes in age-standardized chronic kidney disease are worse for women in 66% of countries included in this study, exceptions exist in which men experience a less favorable change.

Healthy dietary habits and an active lifestyle were associated with a lower rate of all-cause mortality in adults with Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Norton score upon admission is a marker of short‐ and long‐term mortality and should be considered as a risk stratification tool for adults who are candidates for surgical aortic valve replacement, researchers reported.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Evaluation of nearly 9,000 study participants showed that sleep electroencephalograms contain decodable information about the risk for future incidence of mortality, dementia and other diseases.

According to this study, researchers developed clinical models to predict mortality and kidney recovery among critically ill patients with incident AKI in the ICU that outperformed standard scoring tools.