Daily Archives: December 8, 2017

Fri, December 8 – 10 Stories of The Day!

8 Dec, 2017 | 00:12h | UTC

 

1 – First Dementia Global Monitoring System Launched: Global Dementia Observatory (free resources)

News release: Dementia: number of people affected to triple in next 30 years – World Health Organization (free)

 

2 – The global burden of tuberculosis: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free)

Invited Commentary: Tuberculosis eradication: renewed commitment and global investment required (free)

 

3 – Practical Recommendations of the Obesity Management Task Force of the European Association for the Study of Obesity for the Post-Bariatric Surgery Medical Management (free)

 

4 – Systematic review of dietary trans-fat reduction interventions – Bulletin of The World Health Organization (free)

Related: Banning trans fats in New York prevented thousands of heart attacks, study finds – STAT News (free) AND The Worst Fat in the Food Supply – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

 

5 – Perioperative Myocardial Injury After Noncardiac Surgery: Incidence, Mortality, and Characterization – Circulation (free PDF)

Commentaries: Myocardial Injury After Noncardiac Surgery Linked With Higher 1-Year Mortality – TCTMD (free) AND Perioperative Myocardial Injury After Noncardiac Surgery – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)

 

6 – Analysis: Transvaginal mesh failure: lessons for regulation of implantable devices – The BMJ (free)

Related commentaries: Women harmed because vaginal mesh regulation ‘not fit for purpose’ – The Guardian (free) AND Vaginal mesh operations for prolapse should be banned, watchdog to say – The Guardian (free)

 

7 – Case-control and Cohort studies: A brief overview – Students 4 Best Evidence (free)

 

8 – Blood Pressure Trajectories in the 20 Years Before Death – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Blood pressure declines 14 to 18 years before death – University of Connecticut, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Long, Slow Decline in BP Often Precedes Seniors’ Death – MedPage Today (free registration required)

 

9 – Understanding common misconceptions about p-values – The 20% Statistician (free)

Related review: Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations – European Journal of Epidemiology (free)

Source: Nature Briefing Newsletter

 

10 – Low FODMAP diet may improve irritable bowel symptoms more than other diets – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Low fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAP) diet improves symptoms in adults suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) compared to standard IBS diet: A meta-analysis of clinical studies – PLOS One (free)

 

 

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