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Metabolic Syndrome And Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome In Hospitalized Patients With Covid-19, Joshua L Denson, Aaron S Gillet, Yuanhao Zu, Margo Brown, Thaidan Pham, Yilin Yoshida, Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, Ivor S Douglas, Mathew Moore, Kevin Tea, Andrew Wetherbie, Rachael Stevens, John Lefante, Jeffrey G Shaffer, Donna Lee Armaignac, Katherine Belden, Margit Kaufman, Smith F Heavner, Valerie C Danesh, Sreekanth R Cheruku, Catherine A St Hill, Karen Boman, Neha Deo, Vikas Bansal, Vishakha K Kumar, Allan J Walkey, Rahul Kashyap, Society Of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Infection And Respiratory Illness Universal Study (Virus): Covid-19 Registry Investigator Group
Metabolic Syndrome And Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome In Hospitalized Patients With Covid-19, Joshua L Denson, Aaron S Gillet, Yuanhao Zu, Margo Brown, Thaidan Pham, Yilin Yoshida, Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, Ivor S Douglas, Mathew Moore, Kevin Tea, Andrew Wetherbie, Rachael Stevens, John Lefante, Jeffrey G Shaffer, Donna Lee Armaignac, Katherine Belden, Margit Kaufman, Smith F Heavner, Valerie C Danesh, Sreekanth R Cheruku, Catherine A St Hill, Karen Boman, Neha Deo, Vikas Bansal, Vishakha K Kumar, Allan J Walkey, Rahul Kashyap, Society Of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Infection And Respiratory Illness Universal Study (Virus): Covid-19 Registry Investigator Group
Division of Infectious Diseases and Environmental Medicine Faculty Papers
Importance: Obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are common comorbidities in patients with severe COVID-19, yet little is known about the risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or death in patients with COVID-19 and metabolic syndrome.
Objective: To determine whether metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of ARDS and death from COVID-19.
Design, setting, and participants: This multicenter cohort study used data from the Society of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Respiratory Illness Universal Study collected from 181 hospitals across 26 countries from February 15, 2020, to February 18, 2021. Outcomes were compared between patients with metabolic syndrome (defined …
Real-World Assessment Of Asthma Specialist Visits Among U.S. Patients With Severe Asthma., Jessica F Most, Christopher S Ambrose, Yen Chung, James L Kreindler, Aimee Near, Stephen Brunton, Yao Cao, Huan Huang, Xiaohui Zhao
Real-World Assessment Of Asthma Specialist Visits Among U.S. Patients With Severe Asthma., Jessica F Most, Christopher S Ambrose, Yen Chung, James L Kreindler, Aimee Near, Stephen Brunton, Yao Cao, Huan Huang, Xiaohui Zhao
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Papers
BACKGROUND: U.S. guidelines recommend that patients with severe asthma be referred to specialists (allergists/immunologists or pulmonologists) for systematic assessment or comanagement; however, contemporary, real-world data on the frequency and impact of specialist care among U.S. severe asthma patients are lacking.
OBJECTIVES: To quantify the frequency of asthma specialist visits among U.S. patients with severe asthma, identify patient demographic and clinical characteristics associated with specialist visits and describe health outcomes following specialist care.
METHODS: Severe asthma patients aged 6 years or older were identified between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2017, in the IQVIA PharMetrics® Plus database of commercially insured …
Allocation Plans For Crisis Triage: How Well Would They Actually Work?, David Oxman
Allocation Plans For Crisis Triage: How Well Would They Actually Work?, David Oxman
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Papers
COVID-19 has forced US state governments to create plans for rationing critical care resources that ensure the greatest population benefit. But a study by Jezmir and colleagues in this issue of Cell Reports Medicine raises doubts about whether these plans can distinguish those who would most benefit.