Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

All-cause mortality increased progressively ... compared with patients with low baseline albumin-to-creatinine ratio (<1.5 g/g), the adjusted hazard ratio for cardiovascular events was 1.92 ...

Albumin use in patients with septic shock who had kidney impairment was associated with increased RRT (OR, 2.37) and with in-hospital mortality (OR, 1.21). Caution is urged with early albumin use ...

1 Department of Cardiology, Bishan Hospital, Chongqing University of Chinese Medicine, Chongqing, China 2 Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, ...

If you’ve been diagnosed with or are at risk for high cholesterol (meaning you have too much of this waxy substance in your blood), your doctor may recommend a low-cholesterol diet. Learn what a ...