Daily Archives: July 11, 2018
Wed, July 11 – 10 Stories of The Day!
11 Jul, 2018 | 01:44h | UTC
Editorial: USPSTF Recommendations for Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk With Nontraditional Risk Factors: Finding the Right Tests for the Right Patients (free)
“The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of adding the ankle-brachial index (ABI), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) level, or coronary artery calcium (CAC) score to traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in asymptomatic adults to prevent CVD events”.
2 – Association of Multivitamin and Mineral Supplementation and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Multivitamins Do Not Reduce Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality and Should Not Be Taken for This Purpose: How Do We Know That? (free)
Commentaries: Study: Multivitamins Do Not Prevent Strokes, Heart Attacks or Cardiovascular Disease Deaths – University of Alabama at Birmingham, via NewsWise (free) AND Multivitamin-mineral supplements do not reduce heart disease, deaths – Reuters (free)
Related: Supplements Not Effective for CVD Prevention and Treatment (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Multivitamins are probably a waste of money (free commentaries)
3 – Comparative Benefits and Harms of Basal Insulin Analogues for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Newer, older insulin formulations may offer similar glucose-lowering effects – ACP Internist (free) AND HbA1c Reduction Similar in Old, New Basal Insulin Analogues – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Author Interview: Effects of Early Solid Food Introduction on Infant Sleep (free audio)
Commentaries: Babies fed solids earlier ‘sleep better’ – NHS Choices (free) AND Feeding your baby solids early may help them sleep, study suggests – The Guardian (free) AND Giving your baby solid food early won’t help them sleep better – The Conversation (free)
5 – Effect of a Home-Based Wearable Continuous ECG Monitoring Patch on Detection of Undiagnosed Atrial Fibrillation: The mSToPS Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: If You Look For Atrial Fibrillation You Will Find Atrial Fibrillation – Cardiobrief (free)
Related: Wearable technology to screen for atrial fibrillation: does it raise more questions than it answers? (free commentaries)
6 – Review: Update on infection control practices in cancer hospitals – CA: A Cancer Journal of Clinicians (free)
7 – Review: Optimal pain management for patients with cancer in the modern era – CA: A Cancer Journal of Clinicians (free)
Commentary: Higher risk of heart defects in babies of mothers with type 1 diabetes – Karolinska Institutet, via EurekAlert (free)
10 – Consensus Report: Returning Individual Research Results to Participants: Guidance for a New Research Paradigm (2018) – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (free PDF)
Commentaries: National Academies panel urges researchers to routinely share test results with study participants – STAT (free) AND If you give your DNA and tissues to science, should you get a peek at what they might contain? – Science (free) AND New report says individual research results should be shared with participants more often – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (free)
Related Viewpoint: Return of Research Results to Study Participants: Uncharted and Untested – JAMA (free for a limited period)