Daily Archives: July 13, 2017
Acute Myeloid Leukemia – NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:58h | UTCAcute Myeloid Leukemia, Version 3.2017, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (free)
NCCN Guidelines Insights: Antiemesis
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:57h | UTCNCCN Guidelines Insights: Antiemesis, Version 2.2017 (free)
Water fluoridation: dental and other human health outcomes
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:52h | UTCReport: Water fluoridation: dental and other human health outcomes – National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (free) (RT @pash22 see Tweet)
“This Information Paper explores the potential link between water fluoridation and human health”
The future of mechanical ventilation: lessons from the present and the past
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:56h | UTCThe future of mechanical ventilation: lessons from the present and the past – Critical Care (free)
Guidelines for Pathologic Diagnosis of Malignant Mesothelioma
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:54h | UTC
The Finnish national guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with wet age related macular degeneration
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:53h | UTC
Non-health care facility medication errors resulting in serious medical outcomes
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:54h | UTCCommentary: More People Are Making Mistakes With Medicines At Home – NPR (free)
Implantable Hemodynamic Monitoring for Heart Failure
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:51h | UTCSummary with 10 key points to remember: Implantable Hemodynamic Monitoring for Heart Failure – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
Original article: Implantable Hemodynamic Monitoring for Heart Failure Patients – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Efficacy of Tramadol Extended-Release for Opioid Withdrawal
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:52h | UTCCommentaries: Extended-Release Tramadol May Ease Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Should we screen for cirrhosis?
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:48h | UTCHead To Head: Should we screen for cirrhosis? – The BMJ (free)
Pros and cons of screening high risk patients for liver cirrhosis.
Detecting human coronary inflammation by imaging perivascular fat
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:47h | UTCDetecting human coronary inflammation by imaging perivascular fat – Science Translational Medicine (free)
Commentaries: Scan finds heart’s ticking time bombs – BBC News (free) AND New way of reading scans can predict heart attack risk, research finds – The Guardian (free)
Review: Supervised Treadmill Exercise Therapy for Peripheral Artery Disease
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:44h | UTCReview: Supervised Treadmill Exercise Therapy for Peripheral Artery Disease – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
Related guideline: 2016 AHA/ACC Guideline on the Management of Patients With Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease: Executive Summary : A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines (free) AND Summary: AHA/ACC Guideline on the Management of Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease (free)
Pericarditis as a Marker of Occult Cancer and a Prognostic Factor for Cancer Mortality
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:46h | UTCPericarditis as a Marker of Occult Cancer and a Prognostic Factor for Cancer Mortality – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Pericarditis as a Marker of Occult Cancer – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
Tall height and obesity are associated with an increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:47h | UTCCommentaries: Tall men at higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer – OnMedica (free) AND Tall men at bigger risk of aggressive prostate cancer, study suggests – The Guardian (free) AND Height, Weight Linked with High-Grade Prostate Cancer – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Nations that cannot fight tobacco industry should raise taxes, says WHO
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:50h | UTCNations that cannot fight tobacco industry should raise taxes, says WHO – The Guardian (free) (RT @AthaliaChristie see Tweet)
Study: No effect of commercial cognitive training on cognitive function
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:43h | UTCNo Effect of Commercial Cognitive Training on Neural Activity During Decision-Making – The Journal of Neuroscience (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Brain training has no effect on decision-making or cognitive function – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, via NewsWise (free) AND Brain Training: No Effect on Cognitive Performance – Medscape (free registration required) AND Brain-training games don’t really train brains, a new study suggests – The Washington Post (a few articles per month are free)
Predicting Heart Events After Liver Transplant
13 Jul, 2017 | 20:45h | UTCPredicting Heart Events After Liver Transplant – Northwestern University, via NewsWise (free)
See also: CAROLT Calculator
“First app to predict which patients will die or be hospitalized from cardiovascular complication post-transplant”
Thu, July 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!
13 Jul, 2017 | 00:04h | UTC
1 – Report: Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene – World Health Organization (free)
News release: 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as many lack safe sanitation (free)
“New WHO/UNICEF report: 2.1 billion ppl lack safe drinking water at home, more than 2x as many lack safe sanitation” (RT @WHO see Tweet with Infographics)
2 – Association of Positive Airway Pressure With Cardiovascular Events and Death in Adults With Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: More Doubt Cast on CPAP for Reducing CVD Risk in Sleep Apnea Patients – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Positive airway pressure doesn’t reduce heart risk with sleep apnea – Reuters (free)
“PAP for obstructive sleep apnea improves quality of life but not CV events or BP with up to 5 years of follow up” (RT @AnilMakam see Tweet)
3 – State of The Art Review: Advances in the causes and management of community acquired pneumonia in adults – The BMJ (free)
4 – Blood pressure and in-hospital outcomes in patients presenting with ischaemic stroke – European Heart Journal (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Blood Pressure and Outcomes After Ischemic Stroke – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
Related article: Editorial: Blood Pressure in Acute Stroke Still No Answer for Management – Stroke (free PDF)
Observational analysis of over 300.000 patients suggests a J-shaped, or U-shaped relationships between BP and outcomes (both lower and higher BP levels are probably detrimental). Among patients submitted to thrombolytic therapy, there were fewer complications with lower blood pressure.
5 – Effect of Antidepressant Switching vs Augmentation on Remission Among Patients With Major Depressive Disorder Unresponsive to Antidepressant Treatment: The VAST-D Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Study Compares Switching Meds vs an Additional Med for Patients Unresponsive to an Antidepressant – The Jama Network (free) AND For Treatment-Resistant Depression, Add an Antipsychotic or Switch Antidepressants? – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Augmentation with aripiprazole led to a modestly increased likelihood of remission, but with more adverse effects. “Given the small effect size and adverse effects associated with aripiprazole, further analysis including cost-effectiveness is needed to understand the net utility of this approach”.
6 – Association Between Alendronate Use and Hip Fracture Risk in Older Patients Using Oral Prednisolone – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Alendronate Cuts Hip-Fracture Rates in High-Risk Elderly – Medscape (free registration required) AND Alendronate helps cut hip fracture risk with prednisolone – OnMedica (free) AND Alendronate Might Help Protect Against Hip Fracture in Patients Taking Prednisolone – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Retrospective cohort suggests alendronate might reduce fracture risk in the short term in elderly patients taking prednisolone.
7 – Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality – Nature (link to abstract and free graphics – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: NIH-funded team uses smartphone data in global study of physical activity – NIH News Release (free) AND Do you live in the world’s laziest country? – BBC News (free)
“Big data in action! Scientists analyzed smartphone data from 700k+ ppl&100 countries to study physical activity” (RT @NIHDirector see Tweet)
8 – Summary with 10 key points to remember: Diagnosis and Management of Resistant Hypertension – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
Original article: Diagnosis and management of resistant hypertension – Heart (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
9 – Meta-analysis: Safety and Efficacy of Dual Versus Triple Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention – American Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Source: EvidenceAlerts (free resource to find articles of interest)
“In patients receiving anticoagulant therapy, a strategy of single antiplatelet therapy confers a benefit of less major bleeding with no difference in all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, major adverse cardiac events, myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, or thromboembolic event rate compared with dual antiplatelet therapy”.
10 – Beverage Intake During Pregnancy and Childhood Adiposity – Pediatrics (free)
Commentaries: Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages during pregnancy linked to childhood obesity – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Drinking sugary beverages in pregnancy linked to kids’ later weight gain – Science News (free)