Daily Archives: October 18, 2017

Wed, October 18 – 10 Stories of The Day!

18 Oct, 2017 | 00:15h | UTC

 

1 – Guideline: 2017 Appropriate Use Criteria for the Treatment of Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis (free)

Commentaries: 2017 AUC for Management of Severe Aortic Stenosis – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND First Appropriate Use Criteria Issued for Severe Aortic Stenosis – Medpage Today (free registration required)

 

2 – Association of Blood Transfusion From Female Donors With and Without a History of Pregnancy With Mortality Among Male and Female Transfusion Recipients – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Blood Boundaries: Should Transfusions Be Matched by Sex? – Scientific American (free) AND Are transfusions harmful to men if the blood comes from women who have been pregnant? – STAT (free) AND Receipt of Blood Transfusion From Previously Pregnant Donor Associated with Increased Risk of Death Among Male Recipients – The JAMA Network (free)

 

3 – Probiotics for the Prevention of Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea in Outpatients—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Antibiotics (free)

Antibiotic-associated diarrhea ocurred in 8.0% of the probiotic group compared to 17.7% in the control group. The number needed to treat (NNT) to prevent one case of diarrhea was 11 (95% CI 6 to 13).

 

4 – Approach to recurrent fever in childhood – Canadian medical Association Journal (free)

 

5 – Comparative safety of direct oral anticoagulants and warfarin in venous thromboembolism: multicentre, population based, observational study – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: New Anticoagulants Not Linked To Excess Bleeding Rates – Cardiobrief (free)

 

6 – How Low to Go With Glucose, Cholesterol, and Blood Pressure in Primary Prevention of CVD – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (free)

Summary with 12 key points to remember: Glucose, Cholesterol, BP Targets for CVD Risk Factors – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)

 

7 – Omega-6 fatty acid biomarkers and incident type 2 diabetes: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 39 740 adults from 20 prospective cohort studies – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Omega-6 fats may help prevent type 2 diabetes – George Institute for Global Health (free) AND Eating More Nuts Could Protect Against Type 2 Diabetes – Medscape (free registration required) AND Omega-6 could lower type 2 diabetes risk by 35 percent – Medical News Today (free)

 

8 – The oncologic burden of hepatitis C virus infection: A clinical perspective – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (free)

 

9 – Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Influenza in Children, 2017 – 2018 – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

Commentary: 2017-2018 recommendations for pediatric influenza vaccination – Clinical Advisor (free) AND Fall Weather Headed Your Way? Time For Flu Shots – NPR (free)

 

10 – Individual support of nurses using electronic medicine monitors can improve HIV treatment – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a nurse-delivered intervention to improve adherence to treatment for HIV: a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, randomised clinical trial – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free)

 

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