Mortality

Using a prediction model and electronic health records from before the pandemic, researchers estimated the burden that COVID-19 would have on patients with chronic kidney disease in the United Kingdom.

Patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease have a preferable cardiac profile before transplantation and better survival and major adverse cardiovascular event-free survival rates vs. patients with other kidney diseases.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended Evrenzo (roxadustat) as an option for treating anemia associated with chronic kidney disease in adults with stage 3 to 5 CKD with no iron deficiency.

The eGFR equation that includes creatinine and cystatin C but not the race coefficient may be preferable to the eGFR equation that only includes creatinine for measuring racial differences in the risk of kidney failure.

Kidneys utilized during living donor transplants may have a lower likelihood of survival if not age matched to the recipient, according to data presented at the American Transplant Congress.

The Kidney Health Initiative, a public-private partnership between the American Society of Nephrology, the FDA and more than 100 organizations, has launched the End-Stage Kidney Disease Data Standards Project.

SAN DIEGO — A significant proportion of alcoholic hepatitis cases remain unrecognized and correlate with higher 30-day mortality, hospital length of stay and ICU admission, according to results presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

Age variability in symptom onset of Alzheimer’s disease in those with Down syndrome was comparable to those who experienced autosomal dominant AD, while mortality was also similar, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Extreme heat was associated with higher all-cause mortality among adults in the contiguous United States from 2008 to 2017, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

An intervention significantly decreased the rate of potentially inappropriate prescribing among older adults in an ED setting, according to findings from a recent study.