Wed, September 27 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Draft Recommendation Statement: Falls Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Interventions – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (free)

Commentaries: USPSTF Draft Recommendations for Falls and Fracture Prevention – Medscape (free registration required) AND USPSTF Draft Statement: Vitamin D Supplements No Longer Recommended to Prevent Falls in Seniors – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Related guidelines: Falls in older people: assessing risk and prevention – NICE (free) AND Evidence-based guidelines for fall prevention in Korea (free) AND Summary of the Updated American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society Clinical Practice Guideline for Prevention of Falls in Older Persons (free PDF) AND Management of Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Clinical Guidance Statement From the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association (free) AND Prevention of fall-related injuries in the elderly: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma practice management guideline (free)

2 – Review: A Test in Context: Lipid Profile, Fasting Versus Nonfasting – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract and free infographic – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Is fasting before a lipid panel necessary? – Cardiovascular Business (free)

Related guideline: Fasting is not routinely required for determination of a lipid profile: clinical and laboratory implications including flagging at desirable concentration cut-points—a joint consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society and European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (free) AND Commentary: New guidelines simplify cholesterol tests: no fasting needed – STAT (free)

3 – The effects of a rise in cigarette price on cigarette consumption, tobacco taxation revenues, and of smoking-related deaths in 28 EU countries– applying threshold regression modelling – BMC Public Health (free)

See also: Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories in our April 7^th issue (see #1) AND WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2017 in our July 20^th issue (see #1) AND  “Tobacco Endgame” policies in our May 12^th issue (see #3).

4 – Efficacy of recommended drugs against soil transmitted helminths: systematic review and network meta-analysis – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: Reduced Efficacy of Anthelmintic Drugs – MyScience (free)

5 – Childhood onset inflammatory bowel disease and risk of cancer: a Swedish nationwide cohort study 1964-2014 – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Increased risk of cancer in children with inflammatory bowel disease (free)

Commentaries: Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Childhood Tied to Higher Cancer Risk Later – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND IBD in Childhood Raises Cancer Risk – Medscape (free registration required)

6 – Effect of Genotype-Guided Warfarin Dosing on Clinical Events and Anticoagulation Control Among Patients Undergoing Hip or Knee Arthroplasty: The GIFT Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Genotyping Reduces Adverse Events with Warfarin – Cardiobrief (free) AND Genotype-Guided Warfarin Dosing Reduces Adverse Events After Hip, Knee Arthroplasty – Physician’s First Watch (free)

7 – Clinical Report: Infectious Diseases Associated With Organized Sports and Outbreak Control – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

News release: AAP Offers New Guidance on Preventing Spread of Infectious Diseases Associated with Organized Sports (free)

Commentary: When Athletes Share Infections – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

8 – Mapping under-5 and neonatal mortality in Africa, 2000–15: a baseline analysis for the Sustainable Development Goals – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Precision public health: mapping child mortality in Africa – The Lancet (free) AND ‘Precision public health:’ 5 x 5 kilometer mapping identifies significant differences in child deaths throughout Africa – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free)

9 – Pregnant Women Should Still Get The Flu Vaccine, Doctors Advise – NPR (free)

Statement: It is Safe to Receive Flu Shot During Pregnancy – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (free)

See original study showing a possible association between flu vaccine and miscarriage in our September 21st issue (see #6)

10 – Diagnostic Accuracy of Novel and Traditional Rapid Tests for Influenza Infection Compared With Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Newer influenza diagnostic tests more accurate than traditional tests – Clinical Advisor (free) AND Rapid tests linked to quicker and more accurate results for influenza diagnosis than traditional tests – 2 Minute Medicine (free)