Reposted by Ben RussellIPNA Pediatric Nephrology @ped-neph.bsky.social · 06/11/2025CKD 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... 001
Ben Russell @bentrussell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Great example of how legislation matters — no surprise that states with more liberal carrying laws have higher rates of firearm mortality.jamanetwork.comFirearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the USThis 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). 000
Reposted by Ben RussellRolando Claure @runningkidneys.bsky.social · 16/05/2025New 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. 002
Reposted by Ben RussellASN Publications @asnpublications.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Multimodal AKI risk score accurately identifies patients who will develop Stage 2 AKI over two days earlier than serum creatinine alone. bit.ly/CJASN0695 #ASNCJASN 021
Ben Russell @bentrussell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025We 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. 000