Acute kidney injury as a key predictor of cardiovascular events in chronic kidney disease patients: the CKD-REIN study.

Background And Hypothesis: Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been increasingly recognized as a potential exacerbating factor for cardiovascular events in these patients. The CKD-REIN study aims to explore the relationship between AKI and the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in a cohort of CKD patients.

Pesticides and risk of pancreatic adenocarcinoma in France: a nationwide spatiotemporal ecological study between 2011 and 2021.

While pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PA) incidence is increasing, especially in France, the association between pesticides and PA remains unclear. The aims of this study were to assess the spatiotemporal distribution of the incidence of PA in France between 2011 and 2021 and to determine whether pesticide exposure was associated with higher risk of PA. We employed a disease-mapping and ecological regression approach with medicoadministrative data covering 99% of the French population.

Elderly predialysis care pathways and early morbidity-mortality upon start of dialysis.

Background And Hypothesis: The ageing of the population with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) increases the complexity of care pathways. Our aim was to identify subgroups of older people according to predialysis care pathways and describe their association with early morbidity-mortality after transition to dialysis.

Methods: This study included 22,128 incident dialysis patients aged ≥ 75 years during 2009-2017 from the French nationwide registry linked to the National Health Data System.

[Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Psychological Distress of Intervention Workers and Managers in the Community Sector in Quebec. Portrait of the Situation During the COVID-19 Pandemic].

Objectives This article looks at emotional difficulties experienced by intervention workers and managers from three associations of community organizations (mental health, homelessness and for people with disabilities) in Quebec during the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, we document manifestations, sometimes concurrent, of burnout, secondary traumatic stress and psychological distress reported by participants, comparing participants who reported having a management role with those who did not. Method Analyses were conducted based on responses of almost 300 participants to an online questionnaire comprised of 140 items, including scales pertaining to psychosocial risks, professional life quality and psychological distress.