The Advancing American Kidney Health (AAKH) Initiative aims to promote high-value patient-centered care by improving access to and quality of treatment options for kidney failure. The 3 explicit goals of the initiative are to reduce the incidence of kidney failure, increase the number of available...
the former head of the World Health Organization’s 3 by 5 Initiative, and longtime champion of “the science of global health delivery” (Kim, Farmer, & Porter 2013) and liberation theology’s exhortation to make a “preferential option for the poor,” Kim’s work has ...
Prior to or when initiating:Test patients for HBV infection. Prior to or when initiating, and during treatment:As clinically appropriate, assess serum creatinine, CrCl, urine glucose, and urine protein in all patients. In patients with ...
Although diabetes mellitus is a complex and pervasive disease, most studies to date have focused on individual features, rather than considering the complexities of multivariate, multi-instance, and time-series data. In this study, we developed a novel d
sources of CM including the following animal and human cell types: murine macrophages, in particular RAW 264.7 cells [53,57], human M2 macrophages derived from monocytes THP-1 [58], dermal fibroblasts [62,70] and human keratinocytes HaCaT [70], and human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells [...
Health systems have improved their abilities to identify, diagnose, treat and, increasingly, achieve viral suppression among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Despite these advances, a higher burden of multimorbidity and poorer health-related quality of life are reported by many PLHIV in comparison to...
(Steen and Pandey2002). To overcome this challenge, efforts are underway to develop standardized data formats and analysis workflows, such as the Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) (Taylor et al.2006). The goal of this initiative is to establish standardized data protocols in proteomics that ...
What the Comprehensive ESRD Care Program Tells Us About the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiativedoi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2020.05.011Annika KhineEugene LinAmerican Journal of Kidney Diseases
(Left) Yearly average distribution of particulate matter PM2.5. Source: New York City Community Air Survey (NYCCAS). (Right) NYC-population density (source American Community Survey, open source online) Full size image However, while the broad correlation between adverse respiratory health outcomes ...