Glucose-to-albumin ratio predicts short-term mortality in critically ill patients with acute pancreatitis

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Associations of occupation categories with cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality: an analysis of NHANES 2005-2014 | BMC Public Health

Study population This prospective, complex and comprehensive multistage cohort study included US adults aged ≥ 20 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005 to 2014, an independent national cross-sectional survey of US civilians not in institutions, conducted biennially by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Further details about NHANES are available elsewhere … Read more

The role of C-reactive protein to lymphocyte ratio in NAFLD and mortality among NAFLD patients | BMC Gastroenterology

This study, based on data from NHANES 2015–2018, explored the association between CLR and NAFLD, as well as CLR and all-cause mortality in NAFLD patients. After adjusting for multiple covariates, this study confirmed a significant negative correlation between CLR and NAFLD. However, this study did not find a significant association between CLR and either all-cause … Read more

Frailty, Housing Instability Drive Mortality Risk in People With HIV

Housing instability in people with HIV contributes to frailty, which significantly increases their risk of mortality, according to abstracts presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2025. In the general population, frailty is an aging-related risk factor for poor outcomes; individuals experiencing frailty face up to a 2.5 times higher risk of mortality. … Read more

The association between the triglyceride‒glucose index and short-term mortality in ICU patients with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury | BMC Infectious Diseases

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Stress hyperglycemia ratio and machine learning model for prediction of all-cause mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery | Cardiovascular Diabetology

Baseline characteristics of study participants This study analyzed data from 8,321 patients included in the MIMIC-IV database, of whom 3,848 met the inclusion criteria. Participants were stratified into four quartiles (Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4) according to postoperative SHR percentiles. The baseline characteristics for each group are detailed in Table 1. The mean age of the … Read more

Associations between neutrophil-percentage-to-albumin ratio level and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease-cause mortality in diabetes population | BMC Public Health

Data source This study was designed to investigate the relationship between NPAR with long-term mortality in adults among community-dwelling individuals with diabetes by analyzing data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted between 1999 and 2016. The NHANES data was collected by National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a part of the … Read more

Chronic pain is a risk factor for all-cause and cancer-specific mortality in cancer survivors: a population-based cohort study | BMC Public Health

Miller KD, Nogueira L, Devasia T, Mariotto AB, Yabroff KR, Jemal A, Kramer J, Siegel RL. Cancer treatment and survivorship statistics, 2022. CA Cancer J Clin. 2022;72(5):409–36. Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  National Cancer Institute. Cancer statistics. [https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics] Nicholas M, Vlaeyen JWS, Rief W, Barke A, Aziz Q, Benoliel R, Cohen M, Evers S, Giamberardino MA, … Read more