Mortality

U.S. military veterans with traumatic brain injuries who served after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had higher mortality rates compared with other veterans and the general U.S. population, according to study results.

Diabetic foot ulcer episodes were associated with all-cause mortality and all-cause inpatient hospital admissions, according to new results published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.

A variety of social and environmental factors are crucial to assess rates of self-injury mortality and suicide, according to results of a 2-decade-long U.S. cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

Individuals with mildly elevated estimated right ventricular systolic pressure had a high burden of mortality and consequential premature deaths, researchers reported in the European Respiratory Journal.

Surgical management of peritrochanteric hip fractures at low-volume hospitals yielded increased rates of mortality, readmission and certain complications compared with those managed at high-volume hospitals, according to published results.

Patients with alcohol-associated cirrhosis had higher mortality following ICU discharge compared with patients with cirrhosis related to other causes, according to study results published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Rates for suicide and mortality were elevated for patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder regardless of timing for diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, according to a longitudinal study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

A small single-center study published in Kidney International Reports suggests giving bortezomib treatment to patients with multiple myeloma prior to a kidney transplantation to ensure best outcomes.

Researchers estimated that universal early initiation of HIV treatment would have modestly reduced the elevated rate of death among people with HIV compared with the general population during a recent 18-year period.

Compared with patients who continued home hemodialysis treatment, patients who experienced home hemodialysis failure correlated with a “significant” increase in mortality.