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Residents of LTCFs are less likely to return to the hospital if they receive coordinated and continuous care during transfer between facilities.
Miscommunications highlight the need for more-tailored and resource-intensive consideration of transitional care.
Increases in neutrophil counts appear to be causally associated with incident CAD and MI.
A new study using Mendelian randomization appears to confirm that increased neutrophil counts are causally linked to higher coronary artery disease risk, potentially offering a novel treatment target.
This new resource center covers the latest research and news regarding the cardology aspects of Long COVID. http://ms.spr.ly/6189bVG2T
Conference Coverage COVID-19 patients remain sedentary after hospital discharge Author: Heidi Splete Publish date: May 12, 2022 Women and those with persistent symptoms spend more time sleeping in first months after COVID-19. Read More
A “call to action” for organizations and fellowship directors to establish fair and balanced parental policies in cardiology training programs.
An international survey found significant variation in parental leave policies, including scant time off for trainees in the U.S. and Asia versus other countries.
Results from 3 different trials clearly pointing to beneficial effects of vitamin D for T2D risk reduction.
"Given how prevalent prediabetes and type 2 diabetes are, clinicians and patients should consider vitamin D supplementation as an adjunct to weight loss for diabetes prevention."
A small group of HF patients who underwent splanchnic ablation for volume management benefited with improved hemodynamics, symptoms, and quality of life in a limited observational series.
A proposed nerve-ablation technique that questions dogma in heart failure management yielded promising short-term results in a small observational series.
ESG led to sustained weight loss and a reduction of cardiometabolic syndrome comorbidities at 5 years. #DDW2022
Bariatric surgery's benefits have been well documented, but endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty is relatively new, so its outcomes haven't been as well described.
Use of SGLT-2 inhibitors rather than metformin as first-line treatment for T2D decreases the risk for HF hospitalization but not MI, CVA, or all-cause mortality. http://ms.spr.ly/6185bVEP5
Real-world study finds heart failure hospitalization reduction, compared with metformin but not MI, stroke, or overall mortality and with greater genital infection risk.
Ice slurry injection is a safe way of inducing cryolipolysis, which may become a future treatment for a multitude of medical conditions from chronic pain to heart disease.
The potential applications of injectable ice slurry extend well beyond cosmetic dermatology.
Patients with low BMI have a significantly higher mortality risk following myocardial infarction.
As details emerge about yet another school shooting, America's physicians express outrage, grief, and frustration.
Physicians asking "why again?," demand action after gunman murders 21 in the town of Uvalde.
Takotsubo syndrome occurs much more frequently in women but men are more likely to die from it, new study shows.
Takotsubo syndrome, characterized by acute heart failure and transient ventricular contractile dysfunction, is more common in women but men are more likely to die from it.
A plant-based diet can help patients with diabetes achieve remission, new consensus statement suggests. http://ms.spr.ly/6183bpGlN
As a primary intervention, diet can achieve type 2 diabetes remission in many adults with normal or elevated BMI, and should be a plant-based, high-fiber diet, says a new consensus statement.
Mouse grandmothers influence family metabolism for generations to come. Do human grammas have the same power?
So it appears that the first-generation offspring's gametes and hence, the third generation, was being exposed in utero to something generated by the grandmothers' exercise.
This new resource center covers the latest research and news regarding the cardology aspects of Long COVID. http://ms.spr.ly/6189bpPXD
Conference Coverage COVID-19 patients remain sedentary after hospital discharge Author: Heidi Splete Publish date: May 12, 2022 Women and those with persistent symptoms spend more time sleeping in first months after COVID-19. Read More
The first in-human trials of a no-implant approach to interatrial shunting to alleviate heart failure symptoms have shown a signal that the procedure reduces peak exercise wedge pressure in recipients a month afterward, according to early trial results.
A no-implant interatrial shunting procedure showed improved wedge pressure and quality of life for up to 3 months in heart failure recipients.
USPSTF is considering the addition of CKD screening to its list of preventive services.
A potential update is being driven in part by new drugs that can slow progression of a disease with no symptoms in its early stages.
IVT for acute stroke appears safe for patients who have recently received DOAC therapy. #ESOC2022
Is it time to update current guidelines that restrict thrombolysis in patients taking oral anticoagulants?
The sound and quality of a patient’s voice may soon be able to predict HF risk.
It could potentially help guide heart failure therapy to avert acute decompensations, researchers say. "But of course, we have to show that now in larger and randomized clinical studies."
Transcendental meditation is a feasible, efficacious intervention to manage burnout symptoms in health care workers.
Recent surveys show up to 80% of health care workers reporting burnout.
SARS-type viruses bind to beta cells, so having had a COVID infection could increase risk of developing diabetes. Yet, there are other possible COVID-related causes leading to a diagnosis of DM during the pandemic.
Some data say yes and other data say no. Dr. Anne L. Peters sorts it out.
SAFE-PAD study results show patients treated with DCDs have the same long-term survival compared to those treated with NDCDs.
A large study of Medicare claims found no evidence of harmful outcomes associated with drug-eluting stents and balloons for up to 6 years.
Davida F. Kruger, a highly accomplished certified NP and diabetes researcher for more than 35 years with Detroit’s Henry Ford Health System, shares lessons learned and highlights the importance of a team based approach to this serious, deadly disease.
Davida F. Kruger, MSN, APN-BC, BC-ADM Ms. Kruger has been a certified nurse practitioner in diabetes at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, MI, for more than 35 years. Ms. Kruger has been a co-investigator on numerous studies of diabetes interventions and care, including the National Institutes of ...
Interesting reads: Candy-coated pills, superhero references to STIs, money-talk
Plus: Superhero posing, salamander genomes, the bright side of parasitism, and the financial downside of social media.
Intensive behavior therapy program for obesity aimed at changing a person’s response to food cues results in modest weight loss.
Patients highly sensitive to food 'cues' may benefit from behavioral therapy, but the intervention is labor intensive and tied to modest weight loss.
Study quantifies for the first time the link between menopausal hormonal shifts and lipid changes that may predispose women to CVD.
"Menopause is not avoidable, but perhaps the negative metabolite shift can be diminished by lifestyle choices."
Physicians refer to the overwhelming feeling of distress as burnout, but studies have relabled it “moral injury.”
Occupational dissatisfaction increases the risk of cynicism, frustration with patients, internalization of failure, and the likelihood of early retirement.
Major changes and refinements in ICH management. @AHA / @ASA updates in 2022 Guideline for the Management of Patients With Spontaneous ICH.
Several "standard care" therapies for ICH are not as effective as once thought and are no longer recommended in updated guidelines.
New study highlights the importance of avoiding both exogenous hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism to decrease CV risk among patients receiving thyroid hormone treatment.
'Both undertreatment and overtreatment were associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes,' including higher mortality, but keeping thyroid hormone levels normal is a tricky task.
Good hand hygiene and other cost-effective infection prevention and control practices can eliminate up to 70% of health care–setting infections in all countries regardless of economic status, WHO reports. http://ms.spr.ly/6189bPrdJ
Infection prevention and control practices could eliminate 35%-70% of health care-setting infections in all countries regardless of economic status.
Patients with left-sided breast cancer who received radiation doses to the LAD artery experienced an elevated risk for adverse cardiac outcomes.
Key clinical point: Patients with left-sided breast cancer (BC) who received radi
Cardiologist, hacker, ransomware developer. Multitasking French-Venezuelan citizen faces criminal charges in the U.S.
Dr. Zagala's Thanos software allows users to create their own unique ransomware software for personal use or to rent to other cybercriminals.
Vaccinated people who have a breakthrough case of Omicron will have better protection against COVID-19 variants than vaccinated people who receive a booster shot, two preprint studies show. http://ms.spr.ly/6188bPHjk
"We should think about breakthrough infections as essentially equivalent to another dose of vaccine."
Blaming underrepresented minority groups in clinical trials on medical mistrust is the easy answer but, as this article explains, it’s so much more complicated than that.
The FDA wants researchers conducting clinical trials to submit a plan on how they will diversify participant pools. While the effort to undo underrepresentation is appreciated, many say it's not enough.
A recent ISCHEMIA trial substudy is under scrutiny from surgeons for a data discrepancy, rekindling concerns about reliance on the landmark trial data in the latest coronary revascularization guidelines.
Discrepancies between the paper and supplemental data have been slow to come to light, but the substudy authors say it's a simple formatting error.
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