Wed May 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia – World Health Organization (free PDF)

News Release: Adopting a healthy lifestyle helps reduce the risk of dementia – World Health Organization (free)

Commentaries: WHO issues first advice on dementia: exercise and don’t smoke – Reuters (free) AND Eat well, exercise more: New global guidelines to reduce risk of dementia – CNN (free) AND Expert reaction to WHO Guidelines on risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia – Science Media Centre (free)

2 – The Exercise and Sports Science Australia position statement: Exercise medicine in cancer management – Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (free)

3 – Association of Unrecognized Obstructive Sleep Apnea With Postoperative Cardiovascular Events – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Unrecognized Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Postoperative Cardiovascular Complications: A Wake-up Call – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Video Summary: Association of Undiagnosed Obstructive Sleep Apnea With Postoperative Cardiovascular Complications (free)

Commentary: Sleep apnea tied to heart problems after surgery – Reuters (free)

4 – Same-Day vs Different-Day Elective Upper and Lower Endoscopic Procedures by Setting – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Improving the Delivery of Common Medical Procedures to Achieve Value-Based Care – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period) AND When possible, upper and lower GI endoscopies should be done on same day – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (free)

5 – The Dangers of Ignoring the Beers Criteria—The Prescribing Cascade – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Original Article: AGS 2019 Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

6 – Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing Among Older Persons: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies – Annals of Family Medicine (free)

News Release: Inappropriate prescribing can lead to adverse outcomes – American Academy of Family Physicians (free)

7 – Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews, 14 May 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

8 – The Development of Pathways in Palliative Medicine: Definition, Models, Cost and Quality Impact – Healthcare (free) (via @Abraham_RMI)

9 – Is incident rheumatoid arthritis interstitial lung disease associated with methotrexate treatment? Results from a multivariate analysis in the ERAS and ERAN inception cohorts – BMJ Open (free)

Commentary: Methotrexate Use Not Linked to Interstitial Lung Disease in RA – RheumNow (free)

10 – News Release: Whole body MRI may help to detect spread of cancers more quickly – The Lancet (free)

MRI for Lung Cancer Staging: Diagnostic accuracy of whole-body MRI versus standard imaging pathways for metastatic disease in newly diagnosed non-small-cell lung cancer: the prospective Streamline L trial – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (free) AND Commentary: Whole-body MRI for lung cancer staging: a step in the right direction – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (free)

MRI for Colorectal Cancer Staging: Diagnostic accuracy of whole-body MRI versus standard imaging pathways for metastatic disease in newly diagnosed colorectal cancer: the prospective Streamline C trial – The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology (free) AND Commentary: Thinking outside the box: a more efficient diagnostic approach in metastatic colorectal cancer – The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology (free)