Thu August 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!
29 Aug, 2019 | 10:23h | UTC
1 – Type 2 diabetes in adults: management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
Related Guideline: ADA 2019 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes (free supplement)
Related Guidelines: 2017 Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines (free) AND 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension – European Heart Journal (free)
Related Guidelines: Clinical guidelines for the management of depression with specific comorbid psychiatric conditions French recommendations from experts (the French Association for Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology and the fondation FondaMental) – BMC Psychiatry (free) AND Depression in adults: recognition and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
4 – Effect of Low-Dose Supplementation of Arginine Vasopressin on Need for Blood Product Transfusions in Patients With Trauma and Hemorrhagic Shock: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Vasopressin as an Early Adjunct to Resuscitation in Hemorrhagic Shock: Crisis AVERTed? – JAMA Surgery (free) AND Giving trauma patients blood pressure stabilizing hormone cuts transfusions by half – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (free)
Author Interview: Arginine Vasopressin Supplementation in Early Traumatic Shock (free)
“Additional research is necessary to determine whether including AVP improves morbidity or mortality.”
Commentary: Applying AI to ECG data helps gauge patients’ ‘physiologic age’ – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Artificial intelligence-enabled EKG could predict overall health status – UPI (free)
Commentaries: There’s no evidence caesarean sections cause autism or ADHD – The Conversation (free) AND Expert reaction to study on caesareans and neurodevelopmental disorders – Science Media Centre (free)
Commentary: Hormone Therapy Doesn’t Prevent Age-Related Muscle Loss in Women – Medscape (free registration required)
9 – Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging in Healthy, Non-obese Humans – Cell Metabolism (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Alternate-day fasting associated with weight loss – Reuters (free) AND Clinical trial shows alternate-day fasting a safe alternative to caloric restriction – Cell Press (free)
Commentaries: Gout ‘more than doubles’ risk of kidney failure – University of Limerick (free) AND Gout pushes up kidney disease risks, study says – UPI (free)