Mon, July 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!
16 Jul, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
Commentaries: Weight-adjusted aspirin for cardiovascular prevention – The Lancet (free) AND One dose of aspirin doesn’t fit all – University of Oxford (free)
Practice Changing Article. “Low doses of aspirin (75–100 mg) were only effective in preventing vascular events in patients weighing less than 70 kg, and had no benefit in the 80% of men and nearly 50% of all women weighing 70 kg or more. By contrast, higher doses of aspirin were only effective in patients weighing 70 kg or more.”
2 – Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots – The Lancet (free)
Commentaries: Addressing the global challenge of snake envenoming – The Lancet (free) AND New study maps the areas where people are most vulnerable to death following snakebite – London School of Tropical Medicine (free) AND New study finds 93 million people vulnerable to death from snakebites – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free)
Commentaries: Inferior Vena Cava Filters and Mortality: Is It the Underlying Process, the Patient, or the Device? (free)
“Could IVC filters be causing harm? They began being used before @US_FDA started approving devices. This article raises possibility of increased mortality. Maybe where we need trials to determine safety and effectiveness”. (via @hmkyale see Tweet)
Related Guidelines: 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation (free) AND 2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (free)
Commentaries: New digital chemical screening tool could help eliminate animal testing – Science (free) AND Database Analysis More Reliable Than Animal Testing For Toxic Chemicals – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (free) AND Software beats animal tests at predicting toxicity of chemicals – Nature News (free)
8 – Review: Cardiac rehabilitation: A class 1 recommendation – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)
Related Guidelines: Cardiac rehabilitation – Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (free) AND Myocardial infarction: cardiac rehabilitation and prevention of further cardiovascular disease – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
Commentaries: 800,000 More Adolescents Classified as Hypertensive Under New Guidelines – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND New guidelines label 795K more US children as hypertensive – Cardiovascular Business (free)
10 – Serial measures of circulating biomarkers of dairy fat and total and cause-specific mortality in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study – American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Study finds no significant link between whole dairy products and heart disease, stroke – News Medical (free) AND Full-fat dairy may actually benefit heart health – Medical News Today (free)
Related Studies: Meta-Analysis: Cheese consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Milk and dairy consumption and risk of cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality (free study and commentaries)