Mon, Feb 13 – Top 10 Medical News Stories

1 – Tight Glycemic Control in Critically Ill Children – New England Journal of Medicine

“Critically ill children with hyperglycemia did not benefit from tight glycemic control targeted to a blood glucose level of 80 to 110 mg per deciliter, as compared with a level of 150 to 180 mg per deciliter”

2 – Epidemic of untreatable back and neck pain costs billions, study finds – The Guardian

3 – Improving how physicians working in hospital settings prescribe antibiotics – The Cochrane Library

4 – Podcast: Improving how antibiotics are prescribed by physicians working in hospital settings – Cochrane Library

5 – The effect of a reduction in alcohol consumption on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis – The Lancet Public Health (RT @hswapnil and @drjohnm)

More evidence that less alcohol improves hypertension

6 – Comment: Alcohol and blood pressure – The Lancet Public Health

7 – The three questions that every patient should ask their doctor – The Guardian

8 – Exclusion of patients with concomitant chronic conditions in ongoing randomised controlled trials targeting 10 common chronic conditions and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov: a systematic review of registration details – BMJ Open

Despite widespread multimorbidity, more than three-quarters of ongoing trials assessing interventions for patients with chronic conditions excluded patients with concomitant chronic conditions. This indicates that the external validity or generalisability of much of the current evidence is relatively weak.

9 – Proton Pump Inhibitors Do Not Reduce the Risk of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma in Patients with Barrett’s Esophagus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – PLOS One

Source: PracticeUpdates – PPIs Do Not Reduce the Risk of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Associated With Barrett’s Esophagus (free registration required)

10 – Coronary Calcium in Early Middle Age Associated with Increased CHD Risk – Physician’s First Watch