Mortality

Researchers found an inexplicable rise of melanoma incidences despite an unchanging mortality rate, according to a study.

Both male and female patients experienced lower mortality and readmission rates when treated by female physicians, according to study results published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Women with preterm birth, small for gestational age infants, preeclampsia, hypertensive disorders or gestational diabetes had increased mortality risks persisting more than 40 years after delivery, researchers reported.

Among adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension, patient characteristics, mortality and treatment varied across four U.S. census regions, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Among ventilated adults, individualized oxygenation targets collected from a machine learning model that considers baseline characteristics may lower 28-day mortality, according to results published in JAMA.

Any amount of daily steps above 2,200 offers health benefits, but the step count associated with the lowest mortality and incident CVD risk was between 9,000 to 10,500 a day, research showed.

Compared with illnesses like cancer, heart failure and dementia, patients with end-stage kidney disease alone have among the lowest rates of survival after 5 years, Stanford University researchers reported in a published study.

Researchers have designed a clinical prediction model to determine short-term mortality and long-term survival among patients on hemodialysis.

Use of remote patient monitoring programs in adults on automated peritoneal dialysis may be connected to better survival of the technique and lower mortality rates, according to a recently published study.

Mortality in the United States has returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels for the most part, but several groups continue to experience disparities that existed before March 2020, according to a study.