For latest News and updates
Aug 13, 2020
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have aberrant changes in body composition, including low skeletal muscle mass, a feature of “sarcopenia.” The measurement of the (quadriceps) rectus femoris (RF)...
Read MoreAug 13, 2020
Waitlisted kidney transplant patients suffer from excess cardiovascular events. The benefits of regular cardiac investigations, potentially harmful and expensive, are unknown. We investigate the effectiveness of a cardio-renal...
Read MoreAug 13, 2020
Although the gold standard of monitoring kidney transplant function relies on glomerular filtration rate (GFR), little is known about GFR trajectories after transplantation, their determinants, and their association with...
Read MoreAug 13, 2020
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) represent a group of clonal hematopoietic stem cell disorders that commonly progress to acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The diagnostics, prognostics, and treatment of adult MDS are established but...
Read MoreAug 13, 2020
To characterize older adult Medicare beneficiaries seen by board-certified sleep medicine providers (BCSMPs) and identify predictors of being seen by a BCSMP.Our data source was a random 5% sample of Medicare administrative...
Read MoreAug 13, 2020
Ruxolitinib is the first FDA-approved JAK inhibitor for the treatment of myeloproliferative neoplasms and is an effective means of controlling symptom burden and improving splenomegaly. However, a majority of patients will...
Read MoreAug 13, 2020
Kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) are at increased risk for infections.The aims of this study were to describe the incidence of bloodstream infections (BSI) by Gram-negative bacteria in a cohort of KTRs, the risk factors for...
Read MoreAug 13, 2020
To examine an approach for selecting small sets of diagnosis codes with high prediction performance in large datasets of electronic medical records.Modelling study using national hospital and mortality records for patients with...
Read MoreAug 13, 2020
Myocardial fibrosis, resulting from ischemic injury, increases tissue resistivity in the infarct area, which impedes heart synchronous electrical propagation. The uneven conduction between myocardium and fibrotic tissue leads to...
Read More