Kindo and MyHeritage were clearly in contact well before Index invested in the latter.
The most important predictors of HF were older age, antecedent diabetes, prior MI before index MI, and reduced renal function.
METHODS AND RESULTS Included patients underwent echocardiography (1999-2013), had serum creatinine values within 6 months before index echocardiogram, and had no history of valve surgery.
Patient records were examined for a minimum of 12 months before index date to restrict the analyses to those newly diagnosed with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and naive-to-treatment, identifying 1775 on warfarin and 3370 on dabigatran.
Before Index Ventures, Rimer, who grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, was a general partner of The Barksdale Group and before that he was the managing director in Hambrecht & Quist's Equity Research Group.
Our cohort also showed longer hospitalization before index culture and more cases of ICU onset.
In multivariate analysis, length of stay before index culture, diabetes mellitus, and being bedridden were independent risk factors associated with SCCmec II/III.
Previous studies identified a trend between a longer hospital stay before index culture and greater risk of ICU admission in HA-MRSA bacteremia patients [8], [9].
The association we identified between SCCmec II/III and ICU onset and length of stay before index culture was similar to results from previous studies [8] [10], [30].
In univariate analysis, age, ICU onset, length of stay before index culture, diabetes mellitus, bedridden status, recent surgery, and catheter-related infection were associated with recovery of SCCmec II/III isolates (Table 3).
‡In year before index date.
