Daily Archives: May 14, 2018
Case–Control Study: Smoking and Risk of Ischemic Stroke in Young Men
14 May, 2018 | 18:03h | UTCSmoking and Risk of Ischemic Stroke in Young Men – Stroke (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Even young men who smoke have increased stroke risk – Reuters (free) AND Number of Cigarettes Smoked per Day Influences Stroke Risk in Young Men – TCTMD (free) AND Men younger than 50: the more you smoke, the more you stroke – AHA/ASA Newsroom (free)
FDA Safety Alert: Neurovascular Stents in the Treatment of Unruptured Brain Aneurysms
14 May, 2018 | 11:57h | UTCNeurovascular Stents Used for Stent-Assisted Coiling (SAC): Letter to Health Care Providers – Recommendations Associated With the Use of These Devices in the Treatment of Unruptured Brain Aneurysms – U.S. Food & Drug Administration (free)
Commentary: FDA Cautions on Stents for Unruptured Brain Aneurysms – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND FDA issues safety alert on stents used in aneurysm coiling – Univadis (free registration required)
Meta-Analysis: Adding Vasopressin to Catecholamine Vasopressors May Lower AF in Distributive Shock
14 May, 2018 | 15:04h | UTCAssociation of Vasopressin Plus Catecholamine Vasopressors vs Catecholamines Alone With Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Distributive Shock: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Vasopressin plus catecholamines lowers risk of atrial fibrillation in distributive shock – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Vasopressin Lowers Sepsis Afib Risk – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Cross-Sectional Study: Prevalence and Risk Factors for Taenia Solium Cysticercosis in School-aged Children in China
14 May, 2018 | 10:05h | UTCCommentary: Reducing tapeworm infection could improve academic performance, reduce poverty – Stanford University, via EurekAlert (free)
Cluster-Randomized, Crossover Study: Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Glycemic Control in ICU Patients
14 May, 2018 | 11:30h | UTCNear-Continuous Glucose Monitoring Makes Glycemic Control Safer in ICU Patients – Critical Care Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Hypoglycemia reduced with continuous glucose monitoring in small trial of ICU patients – ACP Diabetes (free)
Cluster-Randomized Trial: Breastfeeding During Infancy and Neurocognitive Function in Adolescence
14 May, 2018 | 13:09h | UTCCommentary: Breast-Feeding Has No Impact on I.Q. by Age 16 – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Study: 6-Minute Walk Test Helps Predict Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction After Heart Surgery
14 May, 2018 | 09:34h | UTCPreoperative 6-Minute Walk Distance Is Associated With Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction – The Annals of Thoracic Surgery (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: 6-minute walk test predicts cognitive problems after heart surgery – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Simple walking test helps predict risk for cognitive issues after heart surgery – Elservier, via EurekAlert (free)
NIHR Signals: New Nursing Collection
14 May, 2018 | 07:03h | UTCNursing Collection – NIHR Signals (free)
“Ahead of #InternationalNursesDay, we asked three nurses what research matters to them and why the findings need to be shared” (via @NIHR_DC see Tweet)
Short Review: Essential Tremor
14 May, 2018 | 05:51h | UTCClinical Pearl: Essential Tremor – NEJM Resident 360 (free)
Mon, May 14 – 10 Stories of The Day!
14 May, 2018 | 00:11h | UTC
Editorial: Finding the Right Balance (free)
Commentaries: Restrictive fluids tied to kidney injury after major abdominal surgery – MDedge (free) AND Restricting Fluids During Abdominal Surgery Shows No Benefit, Possible Renal Risk – Medscape (free registration required)
2 – Investigational Testing for Zika Virus among U.S. Blood Donors – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Quick Take Video Summary: Testing Blood Donations for Zika Virus (free)
Sounding Board: Revisiting Blood Safety Practices Given Emerging Data about Zika Virus (free)
Commentaries: Study: Zika blood donation screening costly, finds few cases – CIDRAP (free) AND Testing for Zika virus in blood donors finds few infections — at a cost of about $5.3 million each – STAT (free)
3 – Corticosteroids Reduce Risk of Death Within 28 Days for Patients With Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis, Compared With Pentoxifylline or Placebo—a Meta-analysis of Individual Data – Gastroenterology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Severe alcoholic hepatitis: corticosteroids alone are best for short-term survival – Univadis (free registration required)
4 – Advice for Patients: Are blood pressure measurement mistakes making you chronically ill? – American Heart Association News (free text and infographic)
Commentary: BP measurement: you’re probably doing it wrong – Univadis (free registration required)
5 – Oral Antibiotic Exposure and Kidney Stone Disease – Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Study suggests oral antibiotics may increase kidney stone risk – CIDRAP (free) AND Antibiotics May Raise the Risk for Kidney Stones – The New York Times (free) AND Oral Antibiotics May Raise Risk of Kidney Stones – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, via NewsWise (free)
6 – Viewpoint: Management Reasoning: Beyond the Diagnosis – JAMA (free for a limited Period)
7 – Association of Efficacy of Resistance Exercise Training With Depressive Symptoms: Meta-analysis and Meta-regression Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials – JAMA Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Resistance Exercise Might Improve Depression Symptoms – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Resistance exercise may reduce depressive symptoms in adults – MedicalXpress (free) AND Resistance Exercise Training May Alleviate Some Depressive Symptoms – MedicalResearch.com (free)
8 – Global statistics on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use: 2017 status report – Addiction (free PDF)
Commentaries: Alcohol and tobacco are by far the biggest threat to human welfare of all addictive drugs – Society for the Study of Addiction, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Which drugs pose the biggest threat to public health? – Medical News Today (free)
9 – Methylphenidate for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents – assessment of adverse events in non-randomised studies – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
“Our findings suggest that methylphenidate may be associated with a number of serious adverse events as well as a large number of non-serious adverse events in children and adolescents, which often lead to withdrawal of methylphenidate”.
10 – Cost-effectiveness of Electroconvulsive Therapy vs Pharmacotherapy/Psychotherapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression in the United States – JAMA Psychiatry (free for a limited period)
Author interview: Cost-effectiveness of Electroconvulsive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression in the United States (free)
Commentaries: Study about ‘shock therapy’ for depression suggests more patients should try it sooner – Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan, via EurekAlert (free) AND Third-Line Electroconvulsive Therapy May Be Best for Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND ECT Found Cost Effective Early in Depression Treatment – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Study: Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Authors of Urology Guidelines
14 May, 2018 | 04:49h | UTC“59% Urology Guideline writers received payments from companies AND 37% provided inaccurate COIs forms” (via @daviesbj see Tweet)