Mortality

Lower overall mortality, but not melanoma-specific mortality, was associated with melanoma diagnosed through routine skin checks, according to a study.

Hospital admission with an AKI diagnosis increases the risk for death, hospitalization, heart failure, pneumonia and sepsis after hospital discharge, according to results presented at ASN Kidney Week.

Mortality from Parkinson’s disease increased significantly between 1999 and 2019, according to study results published in Neurology.

White adults with obesity have an increased risk for cancer death, whereas Black women with obesity have no increased risk and Black men with obesity have a lower risk for death from cancer, according to a presenter at ObesityWeek 2021.

Preserved ratio impaired spirometry is a common lung function trait associated with breathlessness, multimorbidity and increased mortality risk, researchers reported in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Black, American Indian/Alaska Native and Latino individuals had more than double the rate of excess deaths than white and Asian individuals in 2020, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Although patients with upper cervical spine trauma had less severe injuries, they had higher risks of mortality and medical and surgical complications compared with patients with subaxial spine trauma, according to results.

Mortality rates due to all causes and drug or alcohol poisoning significantly increased among recently pregnant women in the U.S. from 2015 to 2019, according to findings published in JAMA.

Patients with pediatric onset inflammatory bowel disease may have a higher risk for cancer and death, according to a presentation at UEG Week Virtual 2021.

Administering a beta-lactam antibiotic before vancomycin significantly reduced mortality rates among patients being treated for bloodstream infections, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.