Fri November 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!
15 Nov, 2019 | 10:51h | UTC
1 – The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate – The Lancet (free registration required)
Editorial: Health and climate change: making the link matter (free)
Video: The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: 2019 report (free)
Commentaries: How the Climate Crisis Is Killing Us, in 9 Alarming Charts – Wired (free) AND Climate Change Poses Threats to Children’s Health Worldwide – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND The climate crisis will profoundly affect the health of every child alive today, report says – CNN (free) AND Doctors: Warmer world is unhealthier place for children – AP (free)
Related: Climate Change — A Health Emergency (free reports and commentaries on the subject) AND NEJM Editorial: Prioritizing Health in a Changing Climate (free commentaries) AND Climate change threatens the achievement of effective universal healthcare – The BMJ (free) AND Climate Change Is Having a Major Impact on Global Health – Scientific American (free)
2 – Vegetarian diets in childhood and adolescence – Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics (free)
Related Guidelines: ACP Guideline: Screening for Colorectal Cancer in Asymptomatic Average-Risk Adults (free) AND BMJ Guideline: Colorectal Cancer Screening with Fecal Immunochemical Testing, Sigmoidoscopy or Colonoscopy (new guideline suggesting a more selective approach to screening) AND Colorectal cancer screening for average‐risk adults: 2018 guideline update from the American Cancer Society (recent guideline with recommendation to start screening at 45 years, with links to guidelines from other organizations)
“Our findings suggest that 10 year intervals for colonoscopy screening after a negative colonoscopy, as currently recommended, may be adequate”
Related Guidelines: The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective: 2017 WSES guidelines – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free) AND Management of intra-abdominal infections: recommendations by the WSES 2016 consensus conference – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free) AND The Surgical Infection Society Revised Guidelines on the Management of Intra-Abdominal Infection – Surgical Infections (free) AND The 2018 Lebanese Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Guidelines for the use of antimicrobial therapy in complicated intra-abdominal infections in the era of antimicrobial resistance – BMC Infectious Diseases (free)
8 – Alex Nowbar’s weekly review, 15 November 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.
9 – Association of Subclinical Hearing Loss With Cognitive Performance – JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Reconsidering Individuals with Normal Hearing – JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery (free) AND Hearing loss, even when mild, linked to mental decline in seniors – Reuters (free) AND Earliest stage of hearing loss is linked to cognitive decline – Columbia University (free)
Author Interview: Association of Subclinical Hearing Loss With Cognitive Performance (free audio)
Related: Association of Hearing Loss With Dementia – JAMA Network Open (free) AND Meta-Analysis: Association of Age-Related Hearing Loss With Cognitive Function – JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery (free)
10 – Illiteracy, dementia risk, and cognitive trajectories among older adults with low education – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
News Release: People who cannot read may be three times as likely to develop dementia – American Academy of Neurology (free)
“The independent effect of illiteracy on dementia risk may be through a lower range of cognitive function, which is closer to diagnostic thresholds for dementia than the range of literate participants.”