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M-A: Zinc might help to stave off respiratory infection symptoms and cut illness duration – “But quality of evidence variable, and no clarity on optimal formulation or dose”.

4 Nov, 2021 | 09:53h | UTC

News Release: Zinc might help to stave off respiratory infection symptoms and cut illness duration – BMJ

Original Study: Zinc for the prevention or treatment of acute viral respiratory tract infections in adults: a rapid systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials – BMJ Open

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Review: Lower carbohydrate diets for adults with type 2 diabetes.

4 Nov, 2021 | 09:55h | UTC

Lower carbohydrate diets for adults with type 2 diabetes – British Journal of Nutrition

Related:

Meta-analysis of randomized trials: patients adhering to a low carbohydrate diet for six months may experience remission of diabetes without adverse consequences

Low carbohydrate diet: Insights from a general practice service in patients with type 2 diabetes

Position Statement on Low-Carbohydrate Diets for Adults with Diabetes

Low Carbohydrate Diets for Diabetes: A Review of the Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines

Systematic Review: Low‐carbohydrate Diets for Type 2 Diabetes Management

Practical Guide: Adapting Diabetes Medication for Low Carbohydrate Management of Type 2 Diabetes

Observational Study: Management of Type 1 Diabetes With a Very Low–Carbohydrate Diet

Study: Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Improves Metabolic Syndrome Independent of Weight Loss

Research: Carbohydrate-last meal pattern lowers postprandial glucose and insulin excursions in type 2 diabetes

 

A national HPV vaccination program in England was associated with an estimated reduction in cervical cancer rates of 87% for those offered the vaccine at age 12–13 years.

4 Nov, 2021 | 09:58h | UTC

The effects of the national HPV vaccination programme in England, UK, on cervical cancer and grade 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia incidence: a register-based observational study – The Lancet

Related:

Nationwide cohort study in Sweden shows HPV vaccination linked to reduced risk of invasive cervical cancer

CDC: 92% of Human Papillomavirus–Attributable Cancers can be Targeted by HPV Vaccination

Meta-Analysis: Population-level Impact of HPV Vaccination Programs

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: Principles of management.

4 Nov, 2021 | 09:52h | UTC

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: Principles of management – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Related:

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Pitfalls of Angiographic Diagnosis and an Approach to Ambiguous Cases.

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Clinical Considerations in Diagnosis and Treatment

Review: Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissections and Associated Predisposing Factors

Study: Natural History of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: An Often Unrecognized Cause of Acute Coronary Syndrome

ESC position paper on spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Guideline: Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

Study: Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Clinical Outcomes and Risk of Recurrence

 

COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy—number needed to vaccinate to avoid harm.

3 Nov, 2021 | 10:09h | UTC

COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy—number needed to vaccinate to avoid harm – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Related:

A case-controlled study showed Covid-19 vaccination during early pregnancy was not associated with increased risk of first-trimester miscarriage.

Editorial: Covid-19 treatments and vaccines must be evaluated in pregnancy.

AstraZeneca vaccination not linked to reduced fertility rates and adverse birth outcomes.

Cohort study: Vaccinated pregnant patients had 90% lower risk of severe or critical Covid-19 compared with unvaccinated pregnant patients.

Two observational studies suggest spontaneous abortion is not increased following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination during pregnancy.

Study shows high effectiveness of the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in pregnancy.

5 Crucial Things to Know About COVID-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy.

CDC Guidance: Pregnant people should be vaccinated against COVID-19.

ACOG and SMFM Recommend COVID-19 Vaccination for Pregnant Individuals – “ACOG encourages its members to enthusiastically recommend vaccination to their patients.”

Cohort study: Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine associated with 78% lower risk of Covid-19 in pregnancy.

 

CDC advisers endorse Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5-11.

3 Nov, 2021 | 10:11h | UTC

ACIP Presentation Slides: November 2-3, 2021 Meeting – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Commentaries:

CDC advisors give go-ahead to COVID-19 vaccines for young kids – CIDRAP

CDC advisers endorse Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5-11 – STAT

American Academy of Pediatrics Applauds CDC Advisory Committee’s Approval of Safe, Effective COVID-19 Vaccine for Children Ages 5-11

 

Adolescents’ recreational screen time doubled during pandemic, affecting mental health.

3 Nov, 2021 | 10:06h | UTC

News release: Adolescents’ recreational screen time doubled during pandemic, affecting mental health – University of California, San Francisco

Original Study: Screen Time Use Among US Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study – JAMA Pediatrics

Commentary: Kids nearly doubled screen time during the pandemic, but there is something you can do about it – CNN

 

Commentary from the author on Twitter

 

Short Review: Cardiac injury in Covid-19.

3 Nov, 2021 | 10:04h | UTC

Cardiac injury in COVID-19 – Intensive Care Medicine

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Review: The role of chest imaging in the diagnosis, management, and monitoring of Covid-19.

3 Nov, 2021 | 10:05h | UTC

The role of chest imaging in the diagnosis, management, and monitoring of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – Insights into Imaging

 

RCT: Among children with community-acquired pneumonia discharged within 48 hours from the ED or hospital, lower-dose outpatient oral amoxicillin was noninferior to a higher dose, and a 3-day duration course was noninferior to 7 days.

3 Nov, 2021 | 09:56h | UTC

Effect of Amoxicillin Dose and Treatment Duration on the Need for Antibiotic Re-treatment in Children With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: The CAP-IT Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Related:

RCT: 5 days of high-dose amoxicillin therapy noninferior to 10 days for the treatment of pediatric community-acquired pneumonia

Randomized Trial: Amoxicillin for 3 Days Noninferior to Amoxicillin for 5 Days for Chest-Indrawing Pneumonia in Children

ACP Guidance: Appropriate Use of Short-Course Antibiotics in Common Infections

RCT: 7 days of antibiotic therapy as good as 14 days for afebrile men with urinary tract infection.

RCT: A Seven-days course of antibiotics for the treatment of bloodstream infections by Enterobacterales was noninferior to a 14-days course.

RCT: Among patients with prosthetic joint infection, antibiotic therapy for 6 weeks was NOT shown to be noninferior to antibiotic therapy for 12 weeks and resulted in a higher percentage of patients with unfavorable outcomes.

Randomized Trial: Seven vs. Fourteen Days of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Gram-negative Bacteremia

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

AAP Policy Statement: Preventing Home Medication Administration Errors.

3 Nov, 2021 | 09:58h | UTC

Preventing Home Medication Administration Errors – Pediatrics

Commentary: Ways to Prevent Children’s Medication Errors at Home – American Academy of Pediatrics

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

AHA Scientific Statement: 2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health.

3 Nov, 2021 | 10:00h | UTC

2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – Circulation

News release: New look at nutrition research identifies 10 features of a heart-healthy eating pattern – American Heart Association

Top Things to Know: 2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health – American Heart Association

Commentaries:

‘Balance’ is the key word in new dietary guidance for heart health – American Heart Association

The new American Heart Association dietary guidance to improve population-level cardiometabolic health: moving toward a heart-healthy food environment – American Heart Association

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Review: Management of alcohol use disorder in patients with cirrhosis in the setting of liver transplantation.

3 Nov, 2021 | 09:45h | UTC

Management of alcohol use disorder in patients with cirrhosis in the setting of liver transplantation – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Global Covid-19 deaths surpass five million.

2 Nov, 2021 | 02:59h | UTC

Global Covid-19 deaths surpass five million – CNN

See also:

The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed 5 million people around the world – NPR

G20 leaders back COVID measures as deaths top 5 million – CIDRAP

Covid-19 deaths pass five million worldwide – BBC

Related:

Under-reporting of deaths limits our understanding of true burden of covid-19.

Study shows COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II.

Just how do deaths due to COVID-19 stack up?

Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset.

Exploring the gap between excess mortality and COVID-19 deaths in 67 countries.

Report: Three new estimates of India’s all-cause excess mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic – pandemic death toll estimated to be between 3.4 million and 4.9 million excess deaths.

COVID-19 has caused 6.9 million deaths globally, more than double what official reports show

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Review: Infectious disease in an era of global change.

3 Nov, 2021 | 09:50h | UTC

Infectious disease in an era of global change – Nature Reviews Microbiology

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

In Covid-19 vaccinated people, those with prior infection are likely to have more antibodies.

2 Nov, 2021 | 03:03h | UTC

News release: In Covid-19 Vaccinated People, Those with Prior Infection Likely to Have More Antibodies – Johns Hopkins Medicine

Original Article: Durability of Antibody Levels After Vaccination With mRNA SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in Individuals With or Without Prior Infection – JAMA

 

ASCO Guideline Update: Management of immune-related adverse events in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.

2 Nov, 2021 | 02:51h | UTC

Management of Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: ASCO Guideline Update – Journal of Clinical Oncology

 

A comprehensive review of vascular complications in COVID-19.

2 Nov, 2021 | 03:01h | UTC

A comprehensive review of vascular complications in COVID-19 – Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

 

J&J Covid-19 vaccination is associated with increased risk of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.

2 Nov, 2021 | 03:02h | UTC

Age- and Sex-Specific Incidence of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Associated With Ad26.COV2.S COVID-19 Vaccination – JAMA

Commentary: Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Rate Up After Ad26.COV2.S Shot – HealthDay

 

Deaths in Children and Adolescents Associated With COVID-19 and MIS-C in the United States.

2 Nov, 2021 | 02:58h | UTC

Deaths in Children and Adolescents Associated With COVID-19 and MIS-C in the United States – Pediatrics

Related:

Thirty-Day Outcomes of Children and Adolescents With COVID-19: An International Experience – “Despite negligible fatality, complications including hospitalization, hypoxemia, and pneumonia were more frequent in children and adolescents with COVID-19 than with influenza”.

Deaths from COVID ‘incredibly rare’ among children.

[Preprint] Study confirms children’s extremely low risk of death from Covid-19 – “99·995% of children and young people with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test survived”.

 

Increased temperatures contributed to more than 200,000 cases of kidney disease in 15 years in Brazil alone.

2 Nov, 2021 | 02:46h | UTC

News release: Increased temperatures contributed to more than 200,000 cases of kidney disease in 15 years in Brazil alone, world’s largest study finds – Monash University

Original Study: Association between Ambient Temperature and Hospitalization for Renal Diseases in Brazil during 2000–2015: A Nationwide Case-Crossover Study – The Lancet Regional Health Americas

 

Study shows increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome following vaccination with recombinant zoster vaccine – “an attributable risk of 3 cases per million RZV (Shingrix) doses”.

2 Nov, 2021 | 02:45h | UTC

Risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following Recombinant Zoster Vaccine in Medicare Beneficiaries – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Related: FDA Requires a Warning about Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) be Included in the Prescribing Information for Shingrix

 

Consensus Statement: Preoperative management of gastrointestinal and pulmonary medications.

2 Nov, 2021 | 02:53h | UTC

Preoperative Management of Gastrointestinal and Pulmonary Medications: Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI) Consensus Statement – Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Related articles from Mayo Clinic Proceedings:

Consensus Statement: Preoperative management of endocrine, hormonal, and urologic medications

Consensus statement: Preoperative management of opioid and nonopioid analgesics

Perioperative evaluation and management of patients with diabetes, thyroid disease, and adrenal insufficiency. Use of insulin and noninsulin diabetic medications, management of hyper and hypothyroidism, and use of stress-dose corticosteroids are some of the subjects reviewed

Review: Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment

Review | Perioperative cardiac risk reduction in noncardiac surgery.

Systematic Review of Perioperative Cardiac Risk Prediction Indices

Review: Perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis

 

Short Review: Metronidazole-induced neurotoxicity.

2 Nov, 2021 | 02:41h | UTC

Metronidazole-induced neurotoxicity – Canadian medical Association Journal

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

ASCO Guideline: Management of immune-related adverse events in patients treated with Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy.

2 Nov, 2021 | 02:47h | UTC

Management of Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients Treated With Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy: ASCO Guideline – Journal of Clinical Oncology

 

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