Fri, March 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Mapping child growth failure in Africa between 2000 and 2015 – Nature (free)

Invited commentary, by Kofi Annan: Data can help to end malnutrition across Africa (free)

Other commentaries: Africa ‘very, very far away’ from meeting global target to end child malnutrition – The Guardian (free) Local Burden of Disease – Child Growth Failure – IHME (free) AND Zooming in on advances and opportunities – IHME (free)

2 – Guideline: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (free)

3 – State of The Art Review: Pulmonary arterial hypertension: pathogenesis and clinical management – The BMJ (free for a limited period)

Related Guidelines: Pharmacologic Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Adults – CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report (free) AND 2015 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension (free)

4 – Very interesting resource: A Visual introduction to the basic concepts of probability theory – Seeing Theory (free) (via @CochraneUK see Tweet)

5 – Midlife cardiovascular fitness and dementia: A 44-year longitudinal population study in women – Neurology (free)

Commentaries: High Cardiovascular Fitness in Midlife Tied to Lower Dementia Risk Later – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Physically fit women nearly 90 percent less likely to develop dementia – American Academy of Neurology, via ScienceDaily (free)

6 – Like It Or Not, Personal Health Technology Is Getting Smarter – NPR (free)

“Nice article about wearables related issues, such as medicalization of the healthy, privacy loss, low adherence, uncertain reliability of measurements and uncertain health benefits”. (via @RasoiniR see Tweet)

7 – Wearable technology to screen for atrial fibrillation: does it raise more questions than it answers? – HealthNewsReview (free)

Related: Get Ready For A Tsunami Of ECGs – Cardiobrief (free) AND: Thoughts on the Apple Watch and Mobile ECG, by Dr John Mandrola (free) AND Overdiagnosis Only a Matter of Time With ECG Watches – Medscape (free registration required)

8 – Panic, chronic anxiety and burnout: doctors at breaking point – The Guardian (free)

9 – Statement: American Diabetes Association® Deeply Concerned About New Guidance from American College of Physicians Regarding Blood Glucose Targets for People with Type 2 Diabetes (free)

See original guideline and commentary: ACP Guideline: Hemoglobin A1c Targets for Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes

10 – Calcium and vitamin D supplementation and increased risk of serrated polyps: results from a randomised clinical trial – Gut (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Calcium and vitamin D supplements may raise risk of polyps – MedicalNewsToday (free) AND Calcium Supplements Up Risk for Precancerous Serrated Polyps – Medscape (free registration required)

See related meta-analysis of RCT showing calcium and vitamin D don’t prevent bone fractures