Daily Archives: February 21, 2018
Wed, February 21 – 10 Stories of The Day!
21 Feb, 2018 | 01:20h | UTC
1 – Clinical Guidelines Synopsis: Management of ARDS in Adults – JAMA (free)
Related Review: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment – JAMA (free)
Commentaries: European experts release guidelines about high-altitude exposure for cardiovascular patients – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND A trip to the mountains despite a heart condition? – Eurac Research, via ScienceDaily (free)
Commentaries: Alcohol and dementia: a complex relationship with potential for dementia prevention – The Lancet Public Health (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at alcohol use disorders and dementia risk – Science Media Centre (free) AND Heavy Drinking Tied to Early-Onset Dementia in French Study – MedPage Today (free registration required)
“Of 57,000 people diagnosed before age 65 with early-onset dementia, 39% had alcohol-related dementia by definition, and 18% had an additional diagnosis of alcohol use disorders” (via @medpagetoday see Tweet)
4 – Effect of Low-Fat vs Low-Carbohydrate Diet on 12-Month Weight Loss in Overweight Adults and the Association With Genotype Pattern or Insulin Secretion: The DIETFITS Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Low-Carb And Low-Fat Diets Battle To A Draw – Cardiobrief (free) AND Matching DNA to a diet doesn’t work: ‘We didn’t even come close,’ researcher says – STAT (free) AND Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Study Finds – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Debating low-fat vs low-carb diets? New study found a draw – Scope (free)
Prophylactic haloperidol in this population with elevated risk of delirium did not reduce mortality or any of the 15 prespecified secondary outcomes, including delirium incidence, 28-day delirium-free and coma-free days, duration of mechanical ventilation, and ICU and hospital length of stay.
6 – Review: Adverse pregnancy outcomes and future maternal cardiovascular disease – Clinical Cardiology (free)
7 – Update on Diabetic Nephropathy: Core Curriculum 2018 – American Journal of Kidney Diseases (free)
8 – Avoid common mistakes when treating hyponatremia – ACP Hospitalist (free)
9 – Analysis: How many lives are at stake? Assessing 2030 sustainable development goal trajectories for maternal and child health – The BMJ (free)
Related review: Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health – The Lancet (free registration required)
10 – Real-time continuous glucose monitoring in adults with type 1 diabetes and impaired hypoglycaemia awareness or severe hypoglycaemia treated with multiple daily insulin injections (HypoDE): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
The mean number of hypoglycemic events per 28 days was reduced from 10.8 to 3.5 among patients in the continuous glucose monitoring group and from 14.4 to 13.7 among control group participants.