Fri, September 21 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of lower respiratory infections in 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free)

Invited Commentary: The global burden of lower respiratory infections: making progress, but we need to do better (free)

2 – Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoea in 195 countries: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free)

Invited Commentary: Old and new challenges related to global burden of diarrhea (free)

Related Report: Variation in Childhood Diarrheal Morbidity and Mortality in Africa (free article and commentaries)

3 – Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits – Nature Genetics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: World’s biggest study of blood pressure genetics – Queen Mary University of London (free) AND Researchers find 535 new gene regions that influence blood pressure – UPI (free) AND High blood pressure breakthrough: Over 500 genes uncovered – Medical News Today (free)

4 – Modeling NAFLD disease burden in China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States for the period 2016–2030 – Journal of Hepatology (free)

Editorial: Predicting the future burden of NAFLD and NASH (free)

5 – Incidence of cardiovascular disease up to 13 year after cancer diagnosis: A matched cohort study among 32 757 cancer survivors – Cancer Medicine (free)

6 – The preventable proportion of healthcare-associated infections 2005–2016: Systematic review and meta-analysis – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Even the best healthcare facilities can do more to prevent infections – Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (free)

“Multifaceted tactics for infection control reduce healthcare-associated infections 35-55 percent”

7 – Analysis: Diagnostic expansion in clinical trials: myocardial infarction, stroke, cancer recurrence, and metastases may not be the hard endpoints you thought they were – The BMJ (free)

8 – Perspective: The Case For Expensive Antibiotics – Wired (a few articles per month are free) (via @CarlosdelRio7)

9 – Opinion: Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong – HuffPost (free) (via @cardiobrief)

“For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives.”

10 – Association between maternal gluten intake and type 1 diabetes in offspring: national prospective cohort study in Denmark – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Dietary gluten and type 1 diabetes (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Expert reaction to research on high gluten intake during pregnancy and type 1 diabetes in children – Science Media Centre (free) AND Higher Gluten Intake in Pregnancy Tied to Increased Diabetes Risk in Offspring – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND High gluten intake during pregnancy associated with diabetes – OnMedica (free)

“As such these results, whilst well executed and very interesting, would need to be confirmed within independent similarly sized or bigger studies as stated by the authors themselves.” (from Science Media Centre)