Higher body mass index may be associated with altered vitamin D levels and metabolism
1. Among individuals with a higher body mass index, baseline vitamin D serum metabolite levels...
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chronic-disease
Rezafungin is non-inferior to caspofungin in the treatment of candidemia and invasive candidiasis
1. Global cure was achieved in 59% of the rezafungin group compared to 61% of the caspofungin...
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Diagnostic tool may help identify cerebral palsy regardless of encephalopathy features
1. In a case-control study, a diagnostic prediction tool was able to identify cerebral palsy with...
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Empagliflozin use is associated with slower progression of chronic kidney disease
1. Empagliflozin led to a lower risk of kidney disease progression in patients with chronic kidney...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associated with worse postoperative outcomes
1. Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) had lower survival rates and greater...
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Deep intronic FGF14 repeat expansion associated with late-onset cerebella ataxia
1. A dominant deep-intron GAA repeat expansion in the FGF14 gene was found among French Canadian...
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Catheter ablation reduces rates of persistent atrial fibrillation and atrial tachyarrhythmia
1. In patients with untreated paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation was associated...
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Bimekizumab is effective for active psoriatic arthritis in biologic-naïve adults
1. Significantly more patients in the bimekizumab group reached ACR50 at week 16 compared to the...
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Teach-back method effective to improve postpartum maternal-infant health
1. In a cohort of portpartum mothers with limited maternal health literacy, the teach-back...
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Torsemide not associated with significant difference in all-cause mortality over 12 months compared to furosemide – The TRANSFORM-HF randomized clinical trial
1. In this randomized clinical trial, among 2859 patients, death occurred in 26.1% of patients...
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Machine-learning based prompts for serious illness conversations reduces end of life systemic therapy use
1. The proportion of patients receiving serious illness conversations (SICs) was increased in the...
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Intranasal corticosteroids no better than saline in treating pediatric sleep-disordered breathing
1. In a randomized controlled trial of children with sleep-disordered breathings, intranasal...
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Futibatinib for FGFR2 Mutated Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
1. Using futibatinib to treat patients with FGFR mutated intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma resulted...
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Combined visual-olfactory training for COVID-19 resultant olfactory loss
1. Participants with post-viral olfactory dysfunction (PVOD) who underwent olfactory training (OT)...
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Time-restricted eating ineffective for weight loss
1. Time-restricted eating was not an effective strategy for long-term weight loss in a general...
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Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China
1. In this national survey study, the prevalence of hypertension significantly increased from 2004...
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Metformin use in Type 2 Diabetes associated with decreased risk of joint replacement
1. For patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), metformin use was associated with a...
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High-dose selenium not associated with a reduction in morbidity and mortality in high-risk cardiac surgery patients
1. In this randomized clinical trial of 1416 adult cardiac surgery patients, high-dose selenium...
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Adagrasib provides antitumour activity against KRAS G12C mutant metastatic colorectal cancer both as monotherapy and in combination with cetuximab
1. Overall tumour response to monotherapy treatment with adagrasib was 23% 46% in combination with...
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Adding posterior wall isolation to pulmonary vein isolation not beneficial in ablation for patients with persistent atrial fibrillation — the CAPLA trial
1. Among patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) treated with cardiac ablation, those...
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