Ben Russell

CKDu in children—a commentary on evidence, insights, and prioritizing prevention

CKD is in WHO’s noncommunicable diseases prevention program to reduce premature mortality by 33% by 2030. There are stark regional differences in CKD burden that disproportionally affects low-income countries. Read this Editorial Commentary on CKDu in children.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Its so good

Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).

Great example of how legislation matters — no surprise that states with more liberal carrying laws have higher rates of firearm mortality.

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New meta-analysis shows children with #AKI have impaired growth—especially infants. Involving 3,586 children across 17 cohorts, those with #AKI had significantly lower height and weight z-scores than those without.

Growth monitoring should be a priority after pediatric #AKI.

Multimodal AKI risk score accurately identifies patients who will develop Stage 2 AKI over two days earlier than serum creatinine alone. bit.ly/CJASN0695
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We are moving into an era in clinical medicine where we are finally able to aggregate individual predictors to assess risk on a continuous scale at different time-points using ML algorithms, but do we actually know what we are doing? There are so many poorly calibrated and misleading models.

Just finished my first #PNRC meeting in Miami!