Fri, July 28 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Application of a Lifestyle-Based Tool to Estimate Premature Cardiovascular Disease Events in Young Adults: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study – JAMA Internal Medicine (free) (RT @JAMAInternalMed see Tweet)

Commentaries: Healthy Heart Score performed moderately well in assessing cardiovascular disease risk in young adults – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Online tool predicts heart risk in young adults – Reuters Health (free)

See Health Heart Score Calculator

“An online calculator may help young people predict their risk of developing heart disease in middle age – in time to make lifestyle changes to minimize their odds of myocardial infarction or stroke” (from Reuters)

2 – Long working hours as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation: a multi-cohort study – European Heart Journal (free)

Commentaries: Long working week ‘may increase risk of irregular heartbeat’ – NHS Choices (free) AND Long Workdays May Be Bad for Your Heart – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Long working hours linked to heightened irregular heart rhythm risk – OnMedica (free)

3 – Transcatheter aortic valve implantation for aortic stenosis –NICE Guideline (free)

4 – Chronic kidney disease in adults – NICE Quality Standard (free)

Commentary: Give chronic kidney disease patients a statin, doctors urged – OnMedica (free)

5 – Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s – NICE Quality Standard (free)

Related guideline: Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management – NICE (free)

6 – Big names in statistics want to shake up much-maligned P value – Nature News (free)

“One of scientists’ favorite statistics — the P value — should face tougher standards, say leading researchers”

7 – Association of Changing Hospital Readmission Rates With Mortality Rates After Hospital Discharge – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Pushing Hospitals To Reduce Readmissions Hasn’t Increased Deaths – NPR (free) AND Reduction in Hospital Readmission Rate Not Associated With Increased Risk of Death Following Discharge – The JAMA Network (free) AND Lower Readmissions Not Linked to Post-Discharge Mortality Risk – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Study: Reducing readmissions does not harm patients – Becker’s Hospital Review (free)

8 – Temporal trends in sperm count: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis – Human Reproduction Update (free)

Commentaries: Sperm counts among western men have halved in last 40 years: study – The Guardian (free) AND Sperm Concentrations Have Fallen 50% in Western World – Medscape (free registration required)

9 – Sugar intake from sweet food and beverages, common mental disorder and depression: prospective findings from the Whitehall II study – Scientific Reports (free)

Commentaries: Too much sugar could increase depression risk in men, study suggests – The Guardian (free) AND High sugar diets linked to heightened depression risk in men – The Independent (free)

Association does not imply causation, but this observational study suggests sugar intake has adverse effects on long-term psychological health.

10 – Retrospective analysis of newly recorded certifications of visual impairment due to diabetic retinopathy in Wales during 2007–2015 – BMJ Open (free)

Commentaries: Diabetic sight loss cut by screening, research shows – BBC (free) AND Eye screening linked to fall in sight loss in people with diabetes – NHS Choices (free)