Kathy L. Ales

TL;DR: The method of classifying comorbidity provides a simple, readily applicable and valid method of estimating risk of death fromComorbid disease for use in longitudinal studies and further work in larger populations is still required to refine the approach.

TL;DR: Important discrepancies in performance of prognostic indexes may arise from differences in surveillance strategies and definitions of outcome, with sufficient attention to methodologic consistency, the performance of predictive indexes may not inevitably deteriorate in subsequent studies.

TL;DR: Researchers studied 40 women in the third trimester of pregnancy to determine whether alterations in serum calcium levels or in urinary calcium excretion would distinguish patients with preeclampsia from normal pregnant women or women with other forms of gestational hypertension.

TL;DR: A prospective longitudinal study of 25 pregnant women with chronic hypertension, a group prone to development of preeclampsia, was conducted to explore the relationship between the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and the development of superimposed preeClampsia.

TL;DR: A prospective study of a high-risk population of hypertensive and diabetic patients undergoing elective noncardiac surgery, one objective was to compare different approaches to the assessment of intraoperative hemodynamic patterns to identify those patterns most likely to be associated with postoperative complications.