Fri August 2 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Evaluation and Management of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (free)

Commentary: ATS Publishes Clinical Guideline on Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome – American Thoracic Society (free)

2 – Clinical Practice Guideline: Sudden Hearing Loss – Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (free)

News Release: Sudden hearing loss: Update to guideline to improve implementation and awareness – American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (free)

3 – Primary Prevention of ASCVD and T2DM in Patients at Metabolic Risk: An Endocrine Society^* Clinical Practice Guideline – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (free)

Commentaries: Older adults should be regularly screened for heart disease, diabetes risk – The Endocrine Society (free) AND Why older adults need regular metabolic risk screening – Medical News Today (free)

4 – Immunogenicity of Fractional-Dose Vaccine during a Yellow Fever Outbreak — Final Report – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

“These findings support the use of fractional-dose vaccination for outbreak control.”

5 – Human placenta has no microbiome but can contain potential pathogens – Nature (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: No bacteria found in healthy placentas – Nature News (free) AND Babies get critical gut bacteria from their mother at birth, not from placenta, study suggests – Science (free)

6 – Effect of Standard vs Intensive Blood Pressure Control on the Risk of Recurrent Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial and Meta-analysis – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited perido)

Editorial: Challenges to Realizing Benefits From More Intensive Blood Pressure Control for Preventing Recurrent Stroke – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

7 – Editors’ and authors’ individual conflicts of interest disclosure and journal transparency. A cross-sectional study of high-impact medical specialty journals – BMJ Open (free)

Commentary: Medical journal editors expect authors to disclose conflicts of interest—but don’t disclose their own – Science (free)

Related: Why we should care that many editors of top medical journals get healthcare industry payments (free study and commentary)

8 – Amiodarone and thyroid physiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management – Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine (free)

9 – Association of Coronary Artery Calcium With Long-term, Cause-Specific Mortality Among Young Adults – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentary: Coronary Artery Calcium and Long-Term, Cause-Specific Mortality in Young Adults – American College of Cardiology (free)

10 – Pharmacotherapy Approaches in Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)

Related: British Thoracic Society Guideline for the management of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) (free) AND Pulmonary Disease Due to Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: Current State and New Insights – Chest (free) AND Update on pulmonary disease due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria – International Journal of Infectious Diseases (free) AND Nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease: The top ten essentials – Respiratory Medicine (free) AND Pulmonary Disease Caused by Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria – Respiration (free)