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Spouses of female physicians are on average more educated and work more hours outside the home than spouses of male physicians

Female Physicians’ Spouses More Likely to Work

May explain need for female physicians to make more personal and professional adjustments
Physicians who are experiencing burnout are more than twice as likely to leave their organization within two years

High Costs Associated With Physician Burnout, Attrition

Economic loss at Stanford over two years expected to range from $15.5 million to $55.5 million
An increased β-blocker dose is associated with a greater prognostic advantage in patients with chronic heart failure and diabetes than in those with chronic heart failure but no diabetes

Higher β-Blocker Dose Linked to Lower Mortality Risk

Effect is larger in chronic heart failure patients with diabetes than CHF patients without diabetes
Across all 50 states and the District of Columbia

Few U.S. Adults Meet Fruit, Veg Intake Recommendations

12.2 percent of adults meet fruit recommendation and 9.3 percent meet vegetable recommendation
For patients with atrial fibrillation

NOACs Show Lower Risk of Adverse Renal Outcomes in A-Fib

Compared with warfarin, dabigatran and rivaroxaban linked to lower risk of adverse renal outcomes
Oral insulin does not delay onset of type 1 diabetes in autoantibody-positive relatives of patients with type 1 diabetes

Insulin Doesn’t Prevent Diabetes in Relatives of T1DM Patients

Oral insulin doesn't delay onset in autoantibody-positive relatives of patients with type 1 diabetes
The rise of brain glucose levels is blunted during hyperglycemia in adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus

Brain Glucose Responses Diminish With Diabetes, Obesity

During hyperglycemia, glucose increments lower in patients with obesity, T2DM than in lean participants
Between 2005 and 2014

Chronic Conditions Increasing Among Childbearing Women

Identification of at least one chronic condition rose from 66.9 to 91.8 per 1,000 delivery hospitalizations
Visceral adipose tissue in girls and central adiposity in boys play a role in the acquisition of bone strength during adolescence

Fat Distribution May Influence Bone Strength in Adolescence

Inverse links for visceral adiposity, bone strength in girls and central adiposity, bone strength in boys
Spinal cord stimulation effectively reduces chronic pain symptoms in individuals with painful diabetic polyneuropathy

Spinal Cord Stimulation May Reduce Neuropathic Pain

After 5 years, more than half of patients with painful diabetic polyneuropathy had treatment success