Wed October 23 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017 – Nature (free)

Commentaries: Tackling inequality could save millions of children – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free) AND Where You’re Born Even Within A Country Still Matters – NPR (free)

2 – Bedtime hypertension treatment improves cardiovascular risk reduction: the Hygia Chronotherapy Trial – European Heart Journal (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Blood pressure pills ‘work better at bedtime’ – BBC (free) AND You might want to change the time of day you take your blood pressure medicine – CNN (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at the time of day when blood pressure medication is taken and cardiovascular disease risk – Science Media Centre (free)

3 – Cardiogenic Shock Classification to Predict Mortality in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: SCAI Shock Definition Tracks Well With Mortality in Cardiac ICU – TCTMD (free) AND Shock Classification Stratifies Mortality Risk – American College of Cardiology (free) AND SCAI’s new shock classification scheme used to analyze patients in cardiac intensive care unit – News Medical (free)

4 – New advances in the management of pulmonary sarcoidosis – The BMJ (free for a limited period)

Related Review: Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Sarcoidosis – Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes (free)

5 – Comparison of fracture risk using different supplemental doses of vitamin D, calcium or their combination: a network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials – BMJ Open (free)

Commentary: Network meta-analysis nixes bone benefit from vitamin D, calcium – Univadis (free registration required)

Related Meta-Analysis: Calcium or Vitamin D Supplementation and Fracture Incidence in Older Adults – JAMA (free study and commentaries)

6 – How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Health Care Delivery – NEJM Catalyst (free)

7 – Do fluid boluses before intubation help? (PREPARE trial) – PulmCrit (free)

Original Study: Randomized Trial: A Fluid Bolus Does Not Prevent Cardiovascular Collapse Among Critically Ill Adults Undergoing Tracheal Intubation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

8 – Socially transmitted placebo effects – Nature Human Behaviour (free for a limited period)

Commentary: The Placebo Effect Works And You Can Catch It From Your Doctor – NPR (free)

9 – Prevalence of Survival Without Major Comorbidities Among Adults Born Prematurely – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Researchers Find That Most Adults Born Prematurely Survive Without Major Comorbidities – Mount Sinai Health System (free)

10 – Risk of Developing Parkinson Disease in Bipolar Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Patients With Bipolar Disorder More Than 3 Times as Likely to Develop PD – AJMC (free) AND Looking for links between Parkinson’s and bipolar disorder – Medical News Today (free) AND Parkinson’s And Bipolar Disorder: Is There A Link Between The Two? – Medical Daily (free) AND Bipolar Disorder Raises Subsequent Risk of Parkinson’s – MedPage Today (free registration required)