Tag Archives: mortality
Mortality and Ethnicity in the US
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 4th January 2016The overall mortality rate in the US is the highest in the developed world. But when you dig into the data the breakdown of the various American ethnic groups is very surprising. Last fall Anne Case and Angus Deaton published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shortly before Deaton was awarded…
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Is Pleasantly Plump Best?
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 2nd January 2013A paper in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association presents some interesting data on the association of obesity with overall mortality. The authors of the study reviewed mortality data from almost 3 million subjects. They classified mortality against body mass index (BMI). Their reference group was people with BMIs of 18.5…
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More on Obesity
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 25th December 2010I recently wrote about the obesity paradox. There are diseases in which patients who have a disease and are overweight live longer than patients with the same disease who are thinner – hence the paradox. The December 2 New England Journal of Medicine examines Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults.The authors measured the relationship between BMI (weight in kg divided by the square of…
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Acute Kidney Injury and Clinical Outcomes
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th May 2009A paper in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Acute Kidney Injury Predicts Outcomes of Non–Critically Ill Patients, examines the effect of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) on the clinical out comes almost 6000 patients at a community teaching hospital affiliated with Yale. AKI was deined as an increase in serum creatinine of at least 0.3mg/dL over 48…
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