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Chronic rhinosinusitis is associated with incidence of depression and anxiety

Chronic Rhinosinusitis Linked to Depression, Anxiety

Higher hazard ratios found for depression, anxiety for patients with CRS without nasal polyps
For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest occurring in outpatient dialysis clinics

Dialysis Staff-Initiated CPR Ups Outcomes in Cardiac Arrest

Staff-initiated CPR linked to increase in hospital discharge, favorable neurologic status on discharge
Most children are not brushing their teeth early enough

Many Children Not Following Toothbrushing Recommendations

Almost 80 percent start brushing later than recommended; 34.2 percent brush just once a day
Parents are conflicted about the use of prescribed opioids in children

Parents Conflicted About Opioid Use in Children

Most parents know about alternatives to opioids, but just over a third ask about them
There is disagreement between clinical diagnosis and criteria-based diagnosis of fibromyalgia

Discord Found in Clinician-, Criteria-Based Fibromyalgia Diagnosis

Physicians fail to ID half of criteria-positive patients, incorrectly ID 11 percent of criteria-negative patients
The risk for malignancy and acute complications is low for patients with an adnexal mass with benign ultrasound morphology who are managed conservatively

Conservative Management Feasible for Adnexal Masses

Risk for malignancy, acute complications low for adnexal mass with benign ultrasound morphology
Since 1990

Age-Standardized Mortality Rate for Suicide Down Since 1990

Age-standardized mortality rate higher for men than women; rate of decrease lower for men
For adults with atraumatic shoulder pain for more than three months diagnosed as subacromial pain syndrome

Shoulder Decompression Surgery Not Recommended

No important improvement seen in pain, function, quality of life versus placebo surgery, other options
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is associated with high levels of type 2 diabetes remission at one year

T2DM Initially Remits in Majority Who Undergo Gastric Bypass

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass linked to significantly lower risk for microvascular complications
The percentage of donors from whom hearts were recovered for transplantation who died from drug intoxication increased from 1999 to 2016

Donor Heart Recovery From Drug-Intoxicated Deaths Has Increased

Campaigns promoting organ donation in populations affected by drugs have contributed to increase