Mon October 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – British Society of Gastroenterology consensus guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults – Gut (free)

Related Guidelines: Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for inflammatory bowel disease – Journal of Gastroenterology (free) AND Ulcerative colitis: management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free) AND ACG Clinical Guideline: Ulcerative Colitis in Adults – American Journal of Gastroenterology (free) AND AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Mild-to-Moderate Ulcerative Colitis – Gastroenterology (free) AND Updated S3-Guideline Ulcerative Colitis. German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS) – Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie (free) AND Management of Paediatric Ulcerative Colitis (free) AND Crohn’s disease: management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free) AND ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Crohn’s Disease in Adults – The American Journal of Gastroenterology (free) AND Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Luminal Crohn’s Disease – Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (free)

2 – Global Atlas on Childhood Obesity – World Obesity Federation (free PDF)

Commentaries: The world will have more than 250 million obese kids by 2030, a new report warns – CNN (free) AND 250 million children worldwide forecast to be obese by 2030 – The Guardian (free)

Related: Taking action on childhood obesity report – World Health Organization (free PDF) AND Report: Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades – World Health Organization / The Lancet (free)

3 – Penicillin V four times daily for five days versus three times daily for 10 days in patients with pharyngotonsillitis caused by group A streptococci: randomised controlled, open label, non-inferiority study – The BMJ (free)

4 – Azithromycin during Acute Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations Requiring Hospitalization (BACE). A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-controlled Trial – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Impact of Azithromycin Studied in Acute Exacerbation of COPD – Physician’s Briefing (free) AND Low-Dose Azithromycin May Improve COPD Exacerbation Outcomes – MedPage Today (free registration required)

Source: EvidenceAlerts

5 – Effect of community-initiated kangaroo mother care on survival of infants with low birthweight: a randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (free registration required)

Invited Commentary: Improving survival of infants with low birthweight cared for outside hospitals – The Lancet (free registration required)

Related Cochrane Review: Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants (free) AND Summary: Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants (free)

6 – Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Original Guideline: 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (free guideline and resources)

Related Summaries: The ABCs of Primary Cardiovascular Prevention: 2019 Update – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Key Points From the 2019 ACC/AHA Guidelines on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease – American College of Cardiology (free)

7 – Vaping Illness Update: FDA Warns Public to Stop Using Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-Containing Vaping Products and Any Vaping Products Obtained Off the Street – U.S. Food & Drug Administration (free)

Related: CDC Intensifies Warnings About Vaping Illness As Cases Top 1,000 – NPR (free) AND CDC Report: 76.9% of Patients with Vaping-related Lung Illnesses Used a THC-Containing Product (free) AND Preliminary Report: Pulmonary Illness Related to E-Cigarette Use (free)

8 – Advice to Young Psychiatrists From a Very Old One – Psychiatric Times (free)

9 – Highlight negative results to improve science – Nature (free)

Related: Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Joint statement on public disclosure of results from clinical trials – World Health Organization (free)

10 – Predictors of gastrointestinal bleeding in adult ICU patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

Related: Stress ulcer prophylaxis with proton pump inhibitors or histamin-2 receptor antagonists in adult intensive care patients: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

Source: Grupo UTIclínica – HCFMUSP