Mon, January 14 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – WHO recommendations: Drug treatment for severe hypertension in pregnancy – World Health Organization (free)

Related Meta-Analysis: Drugs for Treating Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy (free study and commentary)

Related Guideline: Hypertension Canada’s 2018 Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension in Pregnancy (free)

2 – WHO recommendations: Induction of labour at or beyond term – World Health Organization (free)

Related Cochrane Review: Induction of Labor for Improving Birth Outcomes for Women at or Beyond Term (free article and summary)

3 – Carbohydrate quality and human health: a series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: High intake of dietary fiber and whole grains associated with reduced risk of non-communicable diseases – ScienceDaily (free) AND High-fiber diet linked to lower risk of death and chronic diseases – CNN (free) AND Expert reaction to series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses about dietary fibre and the risk of non-communicable disease – Science Media Centre (free)

4 – Guidelines for the peri‐operative care of people with dementia – Anaesthesia (free)

5 – Use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of venous thromboembolism: nested case-control studies using the QResearch and CPRD databases – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: HRT patches and gels ‘may be safer’ than tablets for older women – NHS News (free) AND HRT tablets associated with increased risk of blood clots – MedicalXpress (free) AND Expert reaction to HRT and blood clots – Science Media Centre (free)

6 – Thyroid hormone treatment does not help adults with mildly abnormal thyroid tests – NIHR Signal (free)

Original Study: Meta-Analysis: Treating Subclinical Hypothyroidism is Not Associated with Quality of Life and Thyroid-Related Symptoms (link to abstract and commentaries)

7 – Effectiveness of SIESTA on Objective and Subjective Metrics of Nighttime Hospital Sleep Disruptors – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free)

Commentary: Hospital SIESTA project reduces inpatient sleep interruptions – University of Chicago Medical Center (free)

8 – An Observational Study of Deep Learning and Automated Evaluation of Cervical Images for Cancer Screening – JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute (free)

Commentaries: AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer – NIH News Releases (free) AND AI identifies precancerous cervix better than human experts, report says – UPI (free)

9 – Screening for cardiac contractile dysfunction using an artificial intelligence–enabled electrocardiogram – Nature Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Artificial Intelligence From ECGs May ID Asymptomatic LV Dysfunction – TCTMD (free) AND Mayo Clinic research uses artificial intelligence to develop inexpensive, widely available early detector of silent heart disease (free) AND AI-based EKG processing predicts early left ventricular dysfunction – Cardiovascular Business (free)

10 – Clinical cases referring to diagnosis and management of patients with thoracic aortic pathologies involving the aortic arch: a companion document of the 2018 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) expert consensus document addressing current options and recommendations for the treatment of thoracic aortic pathologies involving the aortic arch – European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (free)

Original Guideline: Current options and recommendations for the treatment of thoracic aortic pathologies involving the aortic arch: an expert consensus document of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic surgery (EACTS) and the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) (free)