Increasing Awareness of Obesity’s Link to Heart Failure
Researchers surveyed PCPs and patients with obesity and identified gaps in the diagnosis and management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
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Structured Screening Can Improve PAH Detection
Right heart catheterization may be underutilized in patients with congenital heart disease whose echocardiograms suggest pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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Hemodynamics Add Value to PAH Risk Tools
Right atrial pressure and pulmonary artery elastance were independent predictors of mortality in a cohort of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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Hep C Reinfection Observed in MSM With HIV From 2000 to 2018
Among MSM with HIV who previously cleared HCV, the incidence rate of HCV reinfection was 4.7 per 100 person-years.
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Kidney and Liver Transplants Less Common in Patients With HIV
While patients with HIV are eligible for kidney and liver transplants, these procedures are uncommon in this patient population.
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Women With T2D at Higher Risk for Fractures
Older women with type 2 diabetes had higher risks for any fractures and osteoporotic fractures compared with those who did not have diabetes.
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Sleep Duration Linked to Microvascular Complications
People with type 2 diabetes who slept for short or long durations had a higher prevalence of microvascular damage, according to an abstract at EASD 2024.
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Transvaginal Ultrasound Triage Strategy Unreliable for Black Women
Among Black patients, a significant proportion with endometrial cancer had endometrial thickness under the range of diagnostic thresholds for detection.
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Conventional & Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopy Comparable
A study of patients with type 2 endometrial cancer found no differences in overall survival with conventional laparoscopy versus robot-assisted laparoscopy.
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Comparable Emphysema Seen in COPD & Asthma-COPD Overlap
Comparable emphysema was observed in patients with COPD and asthma-COPD overlap, but not in all patients with asthma.
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Elevated CMI Levels Linked to Increased Asthma Risk
Higher cardiometabolic index levels may be associated with increased asthma prevalence, both before and after adjusting for various covariates.
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Manual Dexterity Predicts Cognitive Dysfunction in MS
Manual dexterity predicted cognitive dysfunction and was also associated with multiple cognitive domains in multiple sclerosis, according to recent findings.
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Tele-Assessment Align With Face-to-Face Assessment in MS
The Berg Balance Scale, Dynamic Gait Index, and Timed Up and Go tests were found to be reliable tests to use with online assessments of patients with MS.
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Patients Miss More PCP Appointments During Temperature Extremes
Older patients and those with chronic conditions were likelier to miss primary care appointments as temperatures fluctuated to significant cold and heat.
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ChatGPT Diagnoses Only Correct in Half of Cases
Researchers input 150 case challenges into ChatGPT, noting the AI struggled to interpret lab values and only produced correct diagnoses half of the time.
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Comorbidities, Cardiovascular Burden Already Elevated in Early PsA
New findings suggest that even in early disease stages, patients with psoriatic arthritis already have greater multimorbidity and cardiovascular burden.
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Work Productivity Losses Increase With Employee BMI
New research has found that loss of work productivity has increased with privately insured U.S. employees that have high BMIs.
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Most Americans Would Welcome Hospital Care at Home, Survey Shows
Many Americans like the idea of receiving hospital-level care at home, believing they would recover from their ills faster and without safety risks.
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RSV Contributes to Burden of Cardiorespiratory Hospitalizations
Modeling excess risk using viral positivity data provides a comprehensive estimation of RSV hospitalization burden and associated costs compared with ICD codes.
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Activity Linked With Lower Stroke Risk in Cancer Survivors
Physical activity and movement has been linked to a lower risk of stroke in patients with cancer.
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