Mortality

Researchers have discovered geographic patterns of mortality rates among patients with young-onset colorectal cancer in the United States, according to findings published in Gastroenterology.

Patients on dialysis are at a significantly heightened risk of death for 30 days after being exposed to a hurricane, according to data published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Delays in melanoma treatment are associated with overall and melanoma-specific mortality, according to a study.

Patients with posttraumatic refractory intracranial hypertension treated with decompressive craniectomy showed reduced mortality and improved recovery at 24 months compared with standard care, per a study published in JAMA Neurology.

Older men with higher concentrations of three bone turnover markers have a higher risk for all-cause mortality than those with lower concentrations, according to study findings published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Higher sleep scores were associated with lower mortality hazard, according to a study presented at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.

Researchers created a new metric among patients on dialysis according to the ratio between phosphorous and normalized protein catabolic rate that correlates with their survival.

LONDON — Cirrhosis severity, infections and mortality outcomes were worse for patients in low to middle-income countries, due in part to poor access to liver transplant and ICU facilities, according to data presented here.

Mortality among kidney transplant patients with COVID-19 and those on dialysis with COVID-19 was similar during the first and second waves of the pandemic in Europe.

LONDON — The Gender-Equity Model for Liver Allocation and its sodium-corrected variant were better predictors of mortality or delisting in patients awaiting liver transplantation and may correct gender disparities, according to research.