Studying the factors that affect the length of stay in the ICU aims to highlight the importance of reducing or eliminating them to reduce the duration of ICU stay, thus reducing costs and increasing the availability of beds for patients who need them. Limitations of the study This was a retr...
Serum GSA and the serum GSA/creatinine ratio tended to decrease with low protein intake in the uremic patients. Urinary GSA was increased in uremic patients (30.5 +/- 12.9 mg/day) as compared to that in normal subjects (7.5 +/- 1.9 mg/day), was greater in uremic patients than in ...
2). Elevated electrolyte levels have been associated with CVD incidence39,40,41. It has previously been shown that sex hormones and parathyroid hormone affect plasma levels of these electrolytes42,43, which likely explains the differences observed around the age of menopause. In line with the ...
factors: sex; DM; level of educational attainment; African American, Asian, or other race; overweight and obesity (body mass index); elevated blood pressure or serum creatinine level; older age (age at the Multiphasic Health Checkup); and urine dipstick levels of protein, glucose, and ...
For men, smoking significantly reduced the incidence of SCH, positive anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPOAb) significantly increased the risk of SCH, and in an adjusted model, the risk of SCH in all quartiles increased as the urine iodine creatinine ratio (UICR) quartile increased. For women...
This study analysed creatinine-adjusted urinary PAH metabolite concentrations and questionnaire data from ~1200 individuals aged 16 years and older surveyed in Cycle 2 of the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS). Statistical analyses revealed that smoking status, age, and sex are associated with ...
[2,3]. Previous studies have found that older age, long course of diabetes, hyperglycemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia, urine microalbumin/urine creatinine ratio (UACR), insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR), C-P level, and mean amplitude of glycemic excursion (MAGE) are associated with the ...
Microalbuminuria was defined as two separate samples of urine albumin/creatinine ratio of 3–30 mg/mmol (30–300 mg/g) within a year, while macroalbuminuria followed a similar definition but with higher ratios than 30 mg/mmol. Risk factor data were not available for control subjects in this ...
Finally, many studies assume that exposure affects outcomes linearly, but this is not necessarily true. Whether multiple factors affect outcomes in a nonlinear or even systematic way requires further investigation. For example, Cohen et al. proposed understanding aging from the perspective of complex ...
Associations between kidney function and dementia risk are inconclusive. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) severity is determined by levels of both estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and the urine albumin to creatinine ratio (ACR). However, whether t