Clinical Utility of KidneyIntelX in Early Stages of Diabetic Kidney Disease in the CANVAS Trial.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1159/000519920 Authors: Lam, David; Nadkarni, Girish N; Mosoyan, Gohar; Neal, Bruce; Mahaffey, Kenneth W; Rosenthal, Norman; Hansen, Michael K; Heerspink, Hiddo J L; Fleming, Fergus; Coca, Steven G Abstract: KidneyIntelX is a composite risk score, incorporating biomarkers and clinical variables for predicting progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD). The utility of this score in…

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Association of Surge Conditions with Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/08850666211067509 Authors: Keene, Adam B; Admon, Andrew J; Brenner, Samantha K; Gupta, Shruti; Lazarous, Deepa; Leaf, David E; Gershengorn, Hayley B; , Abstract: To determine whether surge conditions were associated with increased mortality. Multicenter cohort study. U.S. ICUs participating in STOP-COVID. Consecutive adults with COVID-19 admitted to participating ICUs between March 4 and July…

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Identification of patients at risk of new onset heart failure: Utilizing a large statewide health information exchange to train and validate a risk prediction model.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260885 Authors: Duong, Son Q; Zheng, Le; Xia, Minjie; Jin, Bo; Liu, Modi; Li, Zhen; Hao, Shiying; Alfreds, Shaun T; Sylvester, Karl G; Widen, Eric; Teuteberg, Jeffery J; McElhinney, Doff B; Ling, Xuefeng B Abstract: New-onset heart failure (HF) is associated with poor prognosis and high healthcare utilization. Early identification of patients at increased…

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Prevalence and Outcomes Associated with Hyperuricemia in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1159/000520355 Authors: Chauhan, Kinsuk; Pattharanitima, Pattharawin; Piani, Federica; Johnson, Richard J; Uribarri, Jaime; Chan, Lili; Coca, Steven G Abstract: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) can increase catabolism and result in hyperuricemia. Uric acid (UA) potentially causes kidney damage by alteration of renal autoregulation, inhibition of endothelial cell proliferation, cell apoptosis, activation of the pro-inflammatory cascade, and…

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The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04064-3 Authors: Graham, Sarah E; Clarke, Shoa L; Wu, Kuan-Han H; Kanoni, Stavroula; Zajac, Greg J M; Ramdas, Shweta; Surakka, Ida; Ntalla, Ioanna; Vedantam, Sailaja; Winkler, Thomas W; Locke, Adam E; Marouli, Eirini; Hwang, Mi Yeong; Han, Sohee; Narita, Akira; Choudhury, Ananyo; Bentley, Amy R; Ekoru, Kenneth; Verma, Anurag; Trivedi, Bhavi; Martin, Hilary C;…

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Development of a machine learning model using electrocardiogram signals to improve acute pulmonary embolism screening.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztab101 Authors: Somani, Sulaiman S; Honarvar, Hossein; Narula, Sukrit; Landi, Isotta; Lee, Shawn; Khachatoorian, Yeraz; Rehmani, Arsalan; Kim, Andrew; De Freitas, Jessica K; Teng, Shelly; Jaladanki, Suraj; Kumar, Arvind; Russak, Adam; Zhao, Shan P; Freeman, Robert; Levin, Matthew A; Nadkarni, Girish N; Kagen, Alexander C; Argulian, Edgar; Glicksberg, Benjamin S Abstract: Clinical scoring systems…

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Deciphering intratumoral heterogeneity using integrated clonal tracking and single-cell transcriptome analyses.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26771-1 Authors: Contreras-Trujillo, Humberto; Eerdeng, Jiya; Akre, Samir; Jiang, Du; Contreras, Jorge; Gala, Basia; Vergel-Rodriguez, Mary C; Lee, Yeachan; Jorapur, Aparna; Andreasian, Areen; Harton, Lisa; Bramlett, Charles S; Nogalska, Anna; Xiao, Gang; Lee, Jae-Woong; Chan, Lai N; Müschen, Markus; Merchant, Akil A; Lu, Rong Abstract: Cellular heterogeneity is a major cause of treatment resistance…

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Identification of discriminative gene-level and protein-level features associated with pathogenic gain-of-function and loss-of-function variants.

Link: https://doi.org/S0002-9297(21)00384-0 Authors: Sevim Bayrak, Cigdem; Stein, David; Jain, Aayushee; Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Nadkarni, Girish N; Van Vleck, Tielman T; Puel, Anne; Boisson-Dupuis, Stephanie; Okada, Satoshi; Stenson, Peter D; Cooper, David N; Schlessinger, Avner; Itan, Yuval Abstract: Identifying whether a given genetic mutation results in a gene product with increased (gain-of-function; GOF) or diminished (loss-of-function; LOF)…

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