Tue, October 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Association of History of Gestational Diabetes With Long-term Cardiovascular Disease Risk in a Large Prospective Cohort of US Women – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: CVD Risk for Women Rises After Gestational Diabetes – TCTMD (free) AND Does Gestational Diabetes Per Se Up Long-Term Cardiovascular Risk? – Medscape (free registration required) AND Gestational Diabetes Raises Heart Attack, Stroke Risk, NIH Study Finds – AJMC (free)

2 – Association of Antidepressant Medications With Incident Type 2 Diabetes Among Medicaid-Insured Youths – JAMA Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Antidepressant Use in Youth Tied to Increased Diabetes Risk – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Related article: The risk of new-onset diabetes in antidepressant users – A systematic review and meta-analysis – PLOS One (free) AND Commentary: Type 2 Diabetes and Antidepressant Drug Use: Is There a Causal Link? – Endocrinology Advisor (free)

3 – State of The Art Review: Why and how to step down chronic asthma drugs – The BMJ (free)

4 – Clinical Use of a Home Sleep Apnea Test: An American Academy of Sleep Medicine Position Statement (free)

News release: AASM releases position statement on home sleep apnea testing (free)

Commentaries: AASM: Position Statement on Home Sleep Apnea Testing – MPR (free) AND Sleep Medicine Academy Releases Statements on Home Apnea Testing – Physician’s First Watch (free)

5 – Sex Differences and Similarities in Atrial Fibrillation Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Mortality in Community Cohorts: Results From the BiomarCaRE Consortium (Biomarker for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Europe) – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: A-fib strikes men a decade earlier than women – Medical News Today (free) And AHA: Men develop AFib a decade before women do; BMI linked to increased risk – Cardiovascular Business (free)

6 – Modelled Cost-Effectiveness of a Package Size Cap and a Kilojoule Reduction Intervention to Reduce Energy Intake from Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Australia – Nutrients (free)

Commentaries: Cutting sugar in soft drinks would save 155,000 lives and $8 billion: experts – The Age (free) AND Study spells out huge health benefits by cutting back sugar in sugary drinks – University of New South Wales, Sidney (free)

7 – We may soon have our first $1 million drug. Who will pay for it? And how? – STAT (free)

8 – Long-term Outcomes of Multiple Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Population-Based Study of Patients in British Columbia, Canada – JAMA Cardiology (free)

Commentaries: Study: Triple-Vessel CABG Strategy Matters in the Long Run – MedPage Today (free registration required)

In patients with multivessel disease who are undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting, multiple arterial grafting (MAG) is associated with reduced mortality, repeated revascularization, myocardial infarction, and heart failure when compared with left internal thoracic artery (LITA) supplemented by saphenous vein grafts (LITA+SVG).

9 – 2017 EACTS/EACTA Guidelines on patient blood management for adult cardiac surgery (free)

10 – Gastric acid suppression promotes alcoholic liver disease by inducing overgrowth of intestinal Enterococcus – Nature Communications (free)

Commentaries: Proton pump inhibitors linked to liver disease, researchers find – The Pharmaceutical Journal (free) AND Liver disease risk may be heightened by gastric acid drugs – Medical News Today (free) AND Common acid reflux medications promote chronic liver disease – EurekAlert (free)