Imbalance in Heart Transplant to Heart Failure Mortality Ratio Among African American, Hispanic, and White Patients.
Published in Circulation
All-Cause Mortality and Serious Non-AIDS Events in Adults With Low-level Human Immunodeficiency Virus Viremia During Com...
Published in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
The impact of low levels of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) RNA (low-level viremia [LLV]) during combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) on clinical outcomes is unclear. We explored the associations between LLV and all-cause mortality, AIDS, and serious non-AIDS events (SNAEs). We grouped individuals starting cART 1996-2017 (identified from th...
The Prognostic Value of Hyponatremia for Predicting Poor Outcome in Patients With COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta...
Published in Frontiers in Medicine
Background: This meta-analysis aimed to assess the prognostic value of hyponatremia in patients with COVID-19. Methods: We performed a systematic literature search on PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Wiley up until January 26, 2021. The key exposure was hyponatremia, defined as sodium level below the reference level. The outcome of interest was p...
Do we have to rely on metric-based quality improvement strategies for the management of ESKD?
HIV mortality across the 30 largest U.S. cities: assessing overall trends and racial inequities.
Published in AIDS care
Despite decreases in overall HIV mortality in the U.S., large racial inequities persist. Most previous analyses of HIV mortality and mortality inequities have utilized national- or state-level data. Using vital statistics mortality data and American Community Survey population estimates, we calculated HIV mortality rates and Black:White HIV mortali...
Relationships between creatinine increase and mortality rates in patients given vancomycin in 76 hospitals: The increasi...
Vancomycin is a commonly used antimicrobial with the potential for renal toxicity. We evaluated vancomycin duration, changes in renal function after vancomycin initiation ("post-vancomycin" renal function changes), and associated mortality risk among hospitalized patients. We analyzed data from 76 hospitals and excluded patients with a baseline ser...
Machine-learning model to predict the cause of death using a stacking ensemble method for observational data.
Published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Cause of death is used as an important outcome of clinical research; however, access to cause-of-death data is limited. This study aimed to develop and validate a machine-learning model that predicts the cause of death from the patient's last medical checkup. To classify the mortality status and each individual cause of death, we used a stacking en...
Extrinsic and Existential Mortality Risk in Reproductive Decision-Making: Examining the Effects of COVID-19 Experience a...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
While the COVID-19 pandemic has presented an immediate risk to human life around the world, climate change poses an arguably greater—although less immediate—threat to our species’ survival. Within the framework of life-history theory (LHT), this pre-registered study investigated whether extrinsic risk (i.e., external factors that pose a risk to an ...
Toward a Country-Based Prediction Model of COVID-19 Infections and Deaths Between Disease Apex and End: Evidence From Co...
...Published in Frontiers in Medicine
The complexity of COVID-19 and variations in control measures and containment efforts in different countries have caused difficulties in the prediction and modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic. We attempted to predict the scale of the latter half of the pandemic based on real data using the ratio between the early and latter halves from countries wher...
Insights Into Co-Morbidity and Other Risk Factors Related to COVID-19 Within Ontario, Canada
Published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
The worldwide rapid spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has affected millions of individuals and caused unprecedented medical challenges by putting healthcare services under high pressure. Given the global increase in number of cases and mortalities due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical to identify predictiv...
