Daily Archives: June 13, 2018
Wed, June 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!
13 Jun, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
Editorials: The Screening ECG and Cardiac Risks (free) AND Screening for Cardiovascular Disease Risk With Electrocardiography (free)
JAMA Patient Page: Screening for Cardiovascular Disease Risk With ECG (free)
Author Interview: USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Cardiovascular Disease Risk With Electrocardiography (free audio)
Commentaries: Doctors Told Not To Order Electrocardiograms For Low-Risk Patients – NPR (free) AND USPSTF Finds Insufficient Evidence For Preventative ECG Screening in Asymptomatic, Low-Risk Adults – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Do Not Screen Asymptomatic Adults For CVD With ECGs, Says USPSTF – TCTMD (free)
“The USPSTF recommends against screening with resting or exercise electrocardiography (ECG) to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in asymptomatic adults at low risk of CVD events”.
2 – Prevalence of Prescription Medications With Depression as a Potential Adverse Effect Among Adults in the United States – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: One-Third of US Adults May Unknowingly Use Medications That Can Cause Depression – University of Illinois at Chicago, via EurekAlert (free) AND Many U.S. adults take medicines that can cause depression – Reuters (free) AND Rx With Depression as Potential Adverse Effect Widely Used – Medscape (free registration required)
3 – Clinical Update: Antithrombotic Therapy for Peripheral Artery Disease in 2018 – JAMA (free for a limited period)
4 – Position Paper on Overdiagnosis and Action to be Taken – WONCA (free PDF) (via @RasoiniR)
Related: Overdiagnosis across medical disciplines: a scoping review – BMJ Open (free) Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn’t – BMJ Evidence Based Medicine (free) AND Too much medical care: bad for you, bad for health care systems – STAT News (free)
6 – A sleep prescription for medicine – The Lancet (free registration required)
“Junior doctors working a 34 h shift will make 460% more diagnostic mistakes than when well rested. Matthew Walker asks how can we change the culture of sleep within medicine?” (via @TheLancet see Tweet)
7 – Shaking hands is disgusting – here’s what else you can do – The Conversation (free)
Related: Handshake-free zones to prevent infections? (link to abstract and commentaries)
8 – Antiepileptic drugs in critically ill patients – Critical Care (free)
Commentaries: Stress at work in patients with cardiometabolic disease – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (free) AND Job strain linked to heightened risk of early death in men with heart disease/diabetes – OnMedica (free) AND Work stress raises risk of premature death in vulnerable men – study – The Guardian (free) AND Job Strain as Bad as Smoking in Men With Diabetes, Heart Disease – Medscape (free registration required)
10 – Association of Viral Suppression With Lower AIDS-Defining and Non–AIDS-Defining Cancer Incidence in HIV-Infected Veterans: A Prospective Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Long-term viral suppression may help decrease cancer rates in patients with HIV – ACP Internist (free) AND Long Term HIV Viral Suppression Reduces But Does Not Eliminate Elevated Cancer Risk – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Viral Suppression of HIV Tied to Less Cancer Risk – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)