Advertisement
Home 2018 March

Monthly Archives: March 2018

For patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis

Siponimod Cuts Risk of Disability Progression in Multiple Sclerosis

0
Reduction in 3-month confirmed disability progression in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis
For patients with previously untreated clear-cell advanced renal-cell carcinoma

Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab Tops Sunitinib for Advanced Renal CA

0
Overall survival, objective response higher than sunitinib for untreated clear-cell advanced RCC
Hearing difficulty is associated with accidental injury

Hearing Difficulty May Up Risk of Accidental Injury

0
Leisure-related injuries most consistently associated with various degrees of hearing difficulty
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use is associated with increased risk of atrial fibrillation in a middle-aged Asian population

NSAID Use Linked to A-Fib Risk in Middle-Aged Asian Population

0
Risk up with use of non-selective NSAIDs and combined use of selective, non-selective NSAIDs
For patients undergoing inpatient surgery

Frailty Associated With Failure to Rescue After Inpatient Surgery

0
Dose-response association for frailty with complications and FTR after low-, high-risk surgery
Limited food access owing to cost is associated with increased hemoglobin A1c among patients with diabetes

Food Insecurity Tied to Poor Glycemic Control in Diabetes

0
But living in an area with low physical access to food is not associated with higher HbA1c
A smartwatch coupled with a machine learning algorithm is able to accurately detect atrial fibrillation

Smartwatch May Be Able to Passively Detect Atrial Fibrillation

0
Coupled with deep neural network, smartwatch passively detects a-fib but less accurately than ECG
Adolescent females at high familial risk of depression who do not go on to develop depression have compensatory functional connectivity patterns in emotion regulatory networks

Neural Markers of Depression Resilience ID’d in Female Teens

0
Resilient adolescent females have greater connectivity within frontal and limbic networks
Academic urologists have higher mean weighted ratings than their nonacademic peers

Increase in Patient Load Linked to Poorer Urologist Ratings

0
Poorer ratings seen with increase in Medicare patient load, with rating lowered by 0.04 per 100 patients
Intrauterine adhesions following an induced abortion are rare

Intrauterine Adhesions Rarely Occur Post Induced Abortion

0
Surgical evacuation after medical or surgical abortion increases risk for developing intrauterine adhesions