Survival Rate

Macitentan showed no new safety signals in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension from two real-world datasets, according to a study published in Pulmonary Circulation.

Patients with albuminuric chronic kidney disease without diabetes can experience a significantly increased survival free of kidney failure if treated with the combination of angiotensin receptor blockers and SGLT2 inhibitors.

CHICAGO — Survival rates have almost doubled for children who experienced in-hospital cardiac arrest during the last 20 years, with the greatest gains in children who experienced cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery, researchers reported.

In patients with class 2 uveal melanoma tumors, predicted metastasis-free survival by a gene expression profile test was shown to be worse than that observed in a cohort study and worse than that reported in the literature.

Healio spoke with Rebecca L. Siegel, MPH, senior scientific direct of surveillance research at the American Cancer Society, to learn more about earlier detection of lung cancer and how it has helped patients increase their odds of survival and helped clinicians effectively treat their patients.

One year after patients initiated urgent start peritoneal dialysis in an integrated health care system, they experienced high survival and modality retention rates according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

For up to 5 years following renal replacement therapy, nutritional status at dialysis initiation is associated with long-term survival, according to data published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition.

Lifetime physical activity did not appear to increase risk for ALS, whereas occupational physical activity seemed to be a risk factor for the disease, according to study results published in Neurology.

In this video, Alicia Morgans, MD, discusses the PEACE-1 phase 3 trial that found adding abiraterone to androgen deprivation therapy plus docetaxel improves radiographic PFS and OS in men with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

People with MS had lower overall and cancer-specific survival soon after colorectal cancer diagnosis compared with those without MS, according to results of a retrospective matched cohort study published in Neurology.