BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an independent risk factor for mortality and is responsible for a significant burden of healthcare expenditure, so accurate measurement of its incidence is important. Administrative coding data has been used for assessing AKI incidence, and shows an increasing proportion of hospital bed days attributable to AKI. However, the accuracy of coding for AKI and...

de Boer, R., Doehner, W., van der Horst, I., Anker, S., Babalis, D., Roughton, M., Coats, A., Flather, M., van Veldhuisen, D. (2010). Influence of Diabetes Mellitus and Hyperglycemia on Prognosis in Patients >70 Years Old With Heart Failure and Effects of Nebivolol (Data from the Study of Effects of Nebivolol Intervention on Outcomes and Rehospitalization in Seniors With Heart Failure [SENIORS]...

T elimination of health disparities in the United States is a national priority and overriding goal for Healthy People 2010 (HP 2010). Surveillance of health indicators among minority populations is essential to eliminating disparities. Surveillance is critical for program planning, policy making, evaluating population-based strategies, and tracking progress toward national and state objectives.

Background: The relationship between anthropometrical and physiological parameters with jumping and throwing distance is important. We aimed to investigate the relationship between anthropometrical and physiological parameters with jumping and throwing distance of young elite female jumpers and throwers <spa...

OBJECTIVE This report presents national estimates of the fertility of men and women aged 15-44 years in the United States in 2006-2010 based on the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Data are compared with similar measures for 2002. METHODS Descriptive tables of numbers, percentages, and means are presented and discussed. Data were collected through in-person interviews of a nationally ...

BACKGROUND Although a common neurological disorder in dogs, long-term outcome of epilepsy is sparsely documented. OBJECTIVES To investigate risk factors for survival and duration of survival in a population of dogs with idiopathic epilepsy or epilepsy associated with a known intracranial cause. ANIMALS One hundred and two client owned dogs; 78 dogs with idiopathic epilepsy and 24 dogs with ...