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Culturally sensitive education and stakeholder engagement are critical to increase participation in community screening for chronic kidney disease among African-Americans

Patient, Logistical Factors Limit CKD Screening Among Blacks

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However, culturally sensitive education, engagement can up community screening
Reduced cortical thickness is seen in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) versus controls

Reduced Cortical Thickness ID’d in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

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Female OSA patients had multiple regions of reduced cortical thickness in superior frontal lobe
For patients with obtunded blunt trauma to the cervical spine

No Benefit for MRI After Normal Cervical CT in Blunt Trauma

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MRI had lower health benefit and higher cost compared with no follow-up after normal CT findings
The hemodynamic parameters transpulmonary gradient

Hemodynamic Parameters Predict Outcome in PH-HFpEF

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Tied to mortality, hospitalization in pulmonary hypertension in HF with preserved ejection fraction
Alcohol dependence has deleterious effects on frontal cortical volumes that are compounded by hepatitis C virus infection and drug dependence

Hep C Compounds Alcoholism’s Effect on Brain Volume

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Deleterious effect of alcohol dependence on frontal cortical volumes also compounded by drug use
Burn injury survival has dramatically increased over the past 30 years

Burn Deaths Down From 1989 to 2017 in the United States

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New protocols may have reduced the mortality for all age groups, burn sizes, and genders
Family is an important influence on care preferences among older adults with advanced illness

Family Influences Older Adults’ Care Preferences

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Preferences of those with advanced illness based on interaction of family, individual, and illness factors
Immunotherapy with peptide hydrolysates from Lolium perenne reduces seasonal allergy symptoms and is generally well tolerated

Grass Peptide Immunotherapy Cuts Seasonal Allergy Symptoms

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Subcutaneous injections administered over three-week period before grass pollen season
Improving colorectal cancer screening rates among lower-income populations requires addressing structural

Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Poor Identified

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Structural barriers included economic, health care, and health educational resources
The incidence of breast cancer in women with schizophrenia may be higher than that of the general female population

Risk of Breast CA May Be Higher in Women With Schizophrenia

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Findings based on a meta-analysis that showed significant study heterogeneity