Wed March 18 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline for Vascular Access: 2019 Update – American Journal of Kidney Diseases (free)

2 – 2020 Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures – Alzheimer’s & Dementia (free)

3 – Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand – Imperial College London (free PDF)

Summary: Report 9 – Imperial College London (free)

Commentaries: US, UK coronavirus strategies shifted following UK epidemiologists’ ominous report – CNN (free) AND New Analysis Suggests Months Of Social Distancing May Be Needed To Stop Virus – NPR (free)

“…in an unmitigated epidemic, we would predict approximately 510,000 deaths in GB and 2.2 million in the US, not accounting for the potential negative effects of health systems being overwhelmed on mortality.”

4 – Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Commentaries: New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces – NIH News Releases (free) AND How Long Will Coronavirus Live on Surfaces or in the Air Around You? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND New coronavirus can persist in air for hours and on surfaces for days: study – Reuters (free)

5 – Consequences of Undervaccination – Measles Outbreak, New York City, 2018-2019 – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

6 – Safety and immunogenicity of a tetravalent dengue vaccine in children aged 2–17 years: a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

7 – Association Between Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and Risk of Fracture in Children – JAMA Pediatrics (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Proton-Pump Inhibitors: Small Increased Risk of Fractures in Children – MedicalResearch.com (free)

8 – Automated CT biomarkers for opportunistic prediction of future cardiovascular events and mortality in an asymptomatic screening population: a retrospective cohort study – The Lancet Digital Health (free)

Commentaries: Artificial intelligence-derived imaging biomarkers to improve population health – The Lancet Digital Health (free) AND Artificial Intelligence Predicts Heart Disease Risk from CT Scans – NIH Research Matters (free)

9 – Early prediction of circulatory failure in the intensive care unit using machine learning – Nature Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Circulatory failure is predictable – ETH Zurich (free)

10 – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives / 18 March 2020 Edition

18 March 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)