Fri, September 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – 2017 HIVMA of IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Chronic Pain in Patients Living With HIV – Clinical Infectious Diseases (free)

2 – Education and coronary heart disease: mendelian randomisation study – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: Going to university may cut your risk of heart disease – NHS Choices (free)

3 – Association Between More Intensive vs Less Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering and Risk of Mortality in Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3 to 5: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Intensive blood pressure lowering linked to decreased mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Intensive BP Lowering in Chronic Kidney Disease Associated with Lower Mortality – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Is Strict BP Control a Good Bet for CKD Patients? – MedPage Today (free registration required)

4 – Pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of tachycardiomyopathy – Heart (free)

Source: Critical Care Review Newsletter

5 – Corticosteroid or Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs for the Treatment of Acute Gout: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials – The Journal of Rheumatology (free)

Source: EvidenceAlerts

Corticosteroids and NSAIDs did not have different effects on pain scores, but there was a higher risk of indigestion, nausea and vomiting with NSAIDs.

6 – New Series: The World Bank and financing global health – The BMJ

– World Bank’s financing, priorities, and lending structures for global health (free)

– Universal health coverage, health systems strengthening, and the World Bank (free)

– World Bank and the Global Financing Facility (free)

– Earmarking for global health: benefits and perils of the World Bank’s trust fund model (free)

– Health as a “global public good”: creating a market for pandemic risk (free)

– Baines and Babar: Why medical practitioners should be interested in the World Bank (free)

7 – The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Sleep improvement by internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy might help prevent mental health disorders – The Lancet (free) AND Lack of sleep could contribute to mental health problems, researchers reveal – The Guardian (free) AND Tackling insomnia may be key to easing mental health issues – OnMedica (free)

8 – Protocol for the management of psychiatric patients with psychomotor agitation – BMC Psychiatry (free)

9 – A range of anti-epilepsy drugs are effective as first-line treatment – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Antiepileptic drug monotherapy for epilepsy: a network meta-analysis of individual participant data – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

10 – Osteoporosis drug treatment: duration and management after discontinuation. A position statement from the SVGO/ASCO – Swiss Medical Weekly (free)