Publications by authors named "Ningya Zhang"

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in hospitalized older patients, associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. Major adverse kidney events within 30 days (MAKE30), a composite of death, new renal replacement therapy, or persistent renal dysfunction, has been recommended as a patient-centered endpoint for clinical trials involving AKI.

Objective: This study aimed to develop and validate a machine learning-based model to predict MAKE30 in hospitalized older patients with AKI.

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Little is known about whether preventative practices for post-contrast acute kidney injury (PC-AKI) recommended in guidelines have been adopted in clinical practice and translated into a lower incidence of PC-AKI. The aim of this study was to examine the yearly trends in the incidence of PC-AKI, and comorbidities and care practices associated with PC-AKI in hospitalized patients who received intravenous administration of iodinated contrast medium (ICM). Adult patients receiving intravenous ICM at the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in China between 2015 and 2021 were included.

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Objectives: To investigate the effects of intravenous hydration in preventing post-contrast outcomes in patients with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 30 mL/min/1.73 m undergoing intravenous administration of iodinated contrast media (ICM).

Methods: Hospitalized patients with eGFR < 30 mL/min/1.

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Postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) is a prevalent condition and associated with increased morbidity and mortality following cardiac surgery. This study aimed to investigate the association of underweight and obesity with adverse postoperative renal outcomes in infants and young children undergoing congenital heart surgery. This retrospective cohort study included patients aged from 1 month to 5 years who underwent congenital heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass at the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University from January 2016 to March 2022.

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  • The study focused on predicting major adverse kidney events within 30 days (MAKE30) in elderly ICU patients using machine learning techniques, specifically an extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) model.
  • A cohort of 2,366 elderly patients from a hospital in China was analyzed, with 1,656 patients used to create the prediction model and 710 for testing its accuracy.
  • The XGBoost model demonstrated high predictive accuracy, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.930 for the training set and 0.851 for the test set, helping clinicians make better-informed decisions regarding patient care.
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Background: Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) is a major complication following pediatric cardiac surgery, which is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The early prediction of CSA-AKI before and immediately after surgery could significantly improve the implementation of preventive and therapeutic strategies during the perioperative periods. However, there is limited clinical information on how to identify pediatric patients at high risk of CSA-AKI.

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  • The study investigates the development and validation of models to predict 30-day and 1-year mortality risk in hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) caused by ischemia.
  • It analyzed data from 1,836 patients across three hospitals, identifying various risk factors for mortality, such as hepatorenal syndrome and sepsis.
  • The prediction models demonstrated strong accuracy, with AUROCs indicating good performance in estimating mortality risk, providing a valuable tool for clinical management of these patients.
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Caveola-located scavenger receptor type B class I (SR-BI) and activin receptor-like kinase-1 (ALK1) are involved in transendothelial transport of apolipoprotein B-carrying lipoproteins (apoB-LPs). Transport of apoB-LPs though mouse aortic endothelial cells (MAECs) is associated with apoE-carrying high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-like particle formation and apoAI induces raft-located proteins to shift to non-raft membranes by upregulation of ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1). To investigate apoAI's effect on transendothelial transport of apoB-LPs, MAECs and human coronary artery endothelial cells (HCAECs) were treated with apoB-LPs ± apoAI.

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Objectives: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the common complications in critically ill septic patients, which is associated with increased risks of death, cardiovascular events, and chronic renal dysfunction. The duration of AKI and the renal function recovery status after AKI onset can affect the patient prognosis. Nevertheless, it remains controversial whether early recovery status after AKI is closely related to the prognosis in patients with sepsis-associated AKI (SA-AKI).

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Objective: The epidemiology and outcomes of acute kidney disease (AKD) after acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalized children are poorly described. The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence, predictive factors, and clinical outcomes of AKD in hospitalized children with AKI.

Methods: Children (1 month-18 years) with AKI during hospitalization in the Second Xiangya Hospital from January 2015 to December 2020 were identified.

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  • Acute kidney injury (AKI) is prevalent in hospitalized children and can lead to serious consequences like death and ongoing kidney issues; this study developed predictive models using machine learning to assess these risks.
  • Data was collected from 1,394 pediatric AKI patients admitted to a hospital in China between 2015 and 2020, evaluating key outcomes within 30 and 90 days of hospital admission.
  • The machine learning model, eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), demonstrated strong predictive accuracy compared to traditional logistic regression, suggesting its potential for practical use in clinical settings through a web-based risk calculator.
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Background: Stratification of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients [estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 mL/min/1.73 m2] at risk for post-contrast acute kidney injury (PC-AKI) following intravenous administration of iodinated contrast media (ICM) is important for clinical decision-making and clinical trial enrollment.

Methods: The derivation and internal validation cohorts originated from the Second Xiangya Hospital.

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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is commonly present in critically ill patients with sepsis. Early prediction of short-term reversibility of AKI is beneficial to risk stratification and clinical treatment decision. The study sought to use machine learning methods to discriminate between transient and persistent sepsis-associated AKI.

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Objectives: To evaluate the effects of intravenous iodinated contrast medium (ICM) administration on the deterioration of renal function (DRF), new renal replacement therapy (RRT) induction and mortality of hospitalized acute kidney injury (AKI) patients.

Methods: Adult hospitalized patients undergoing a contrast-enhanced or unenhanced CT scan within 7 days after AKI diagnosis from January 2015 to December 2019 were identified in this retrospective study. Propensity score matching was performed.

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Acute kidney injury (AKI) correlates with increased health-care costs and poor outcomes in older adults. However, there is no good scoring system to predict mortality within 30-day, 1-year after AKI in older adults. We performed a retrospective analysis screening data of 53,944 hospitalized elderly patients (age > 65 years) from multi-centers in China.

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Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) have become worldwide public health problems, but little information is known about the epidemiology of acute kidney disease (AKD)-a state in between AKI and CKD. We aimed to explore the incidence and outcomes of hospitalized patients with AKD after AKI, and investigate the prognostic value of AKD in predicting 30-day and one-year adverse outcomes.

Methods: A total of 2,556 hospitalized AKI patients were identified from three tertiary hospitals in China in 2015 and followed up for one year.

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Acute kidney disease (AKD) is a state between acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD), but the prognosis of AKD is unclear and there are no risk-prediction tools to identify high-risk patients. 2,556 AKI patients were selected from 277,898 inpatients of three affiliated hospitals of Central South University from January 2015 to December 2015. The primary point was whether AKI patients developed AKD.

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Objectives: To investigate the prognosis including major adverse kidney events within 30 days (MAKE30) and 90-day and 1-year adverse outcome in hospitalized patients with post-contrast acute kidney injury (PC-AKI) to identify high-risk factors.

Methods: This retrospective observational study included 288 PC-AKI patients selected from 277,898 patients admitted to hospitals from January 2015 to December 2015. PC-AKI was defined according to the 2018 guideline of European Society of Urogenital Radiology.

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Apolipoprotein A-I (apoAI) upregulates ATP-binding cassette transport A1 (ABCA1) in various cell types. ABCA1 has been shown to induce the redistribution of raft-associated proteins and lipids to the non-raft membrane. This report investigated the effect of apoAI on ABCA1 expression and raft cholesterol and protein distribution, as well as the effect of ABCA1 knockdown on apoAI-induced changes in mouse aortic endothelial cells (MAECs).

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Passage of apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins (apoB-LPs), i.e., triglyceride-rich lipoproteins (TRLs), intermediate-density lipoproteins (IDLs), and low-density lipoproteins (LDLs), through the endothelial monolayer occurs in normal and atherosclerotic arteries.

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