Readmission and Mortality After Hospitalization With Acute Kidney Injury.

Rationale & Objective: Acute kidney injury (AKI) carries high rates of morbidity and mortality. This study quantified various short- and long-term outcomes after hospitalization with AKI.

Study Design: Retrospective propensity score (PS)-matched cohort study.

Eighteen-Year Trends in the Prevalence of, and Health Care Use for, Noncancer Pain in the United States: Data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

We used data from the nationally representative Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to determine the 18-year trends in the overall rates of noncancer pain prevalence and pain-related interference, as well as in health care use attributable directly to pain management. The proportion of adults reporting painful health condition(s) increased from 32.9% (99.

Variability in midlife systolic blood pressure is related to late-life brain white matter lesions: the Honolulu-Asia Aging study.

Background And Purpose: Although white matter lesions (WMLs) on brain MRI in older persons are common, the mechanisms are unclear. Besides the associations with advanced age and high blood pressure (BP), variability in systolic BP (SBP) and the resulting changes in blood flow to the deep arteries of the brain may be contributing factors.

Methods: Japanese-American men in Hawaii have participated in a long-term study of cardiovascular disease, including midlife BP measurements at 3 clinical examinations in the period from 1965 to 1974.