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Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment

Author/s: Raslau, D, Bierle, DM, Stephenson, CR, Mikhail, MA, Kebede, EB, Mauck, KF

Major adverse cardiac events are common causes of perioperative mortality and major morbidity. Preventing these complications requires thorough preoperative risk assessment and postoperative monitoring of at-risk patients. Major guidelines recommend assessment based on a validated risk...

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cardiac preoperative assessment risk factors heart failure

Continuation of Annual Screening Mammography and Breast Cancer Mortality in Women Older Than 70 Years

Author/s: García-Albéniz, X., Hernán, M.A., Logan, R.W., Price, M., Armstrong, K., Hsu, J.

BACKGROUND:

Randomized trials have shown that initiating breast cancer screening between ages 50 and 69 years and continuing it for 10 years decreases breast cancer mortality. However, no trials have studied whether or when women can safely stop screening mammography. An estimated 52% of ...

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breast cancer cancer screening

Clinical diagnosis of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular neuritis

Author/s: Johns, P, Quinn, J

KEY POINTS

• Assess patients with vertigo for focal neurologic signs and symptoms, sustained substantial headache or neck pain, inability to stand and spontaneous vertical nystagmus.

• Perform the Dix–Hallpike test only for patients with episodes of vertigo less than 2 minutes and...

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vertigo benign paroxysmal positional vertigo vestibular neuritis

5-year mental health and eating pattern outcomes following bariatric surgery in adolescents: a prospective cohort study

Author/s: Järvholm, K, Bruze, G, Peltonen, M, Marcus, C, Flodmark, CE, Henfridsson, P, Beamish, AJ, Gronowitz, E, Dahlgren, J, Karlsson, J, Olbers, T

BACKGROUND:

Mental health problems are prevalent among adolescents with severe obesity, but long-term mental health outcomes after adolescent bariatric surgery are not well known. We aimed to assess mental health outcomes over 5 years of follow-up after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in...

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mental health children adolescent bariatric surgery obesity

Interim Estimates of 2019–20 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness — United States, February 2020

Author/s: Dawood, FS, Chung, JR, Kim, SS, Zimmerman, RK, Nowalk, MP, Jackson, ML, Jackson, LA, Monto, AS, Martin, ET, Belongia, EA, McLean, HQ, Gaglani, M, Dunnigan, K, Foust, A, Sessions, W, DaSilva, J, Le, S, Stark, T, Kondor, RJ, Barnes, JR, Wentworth, DE, Brammer, L, Fry, AM, Patel, MM, Flannery, B

What is already known about this topic?

Annual vaccination against seasonal influenza is recommended for all U.S. persons aged ≥6 months. Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine varies by season.

What is added by this report?

According...

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influenza Flu vaccines effectiveness

Twenty-Four-Hour Movement Guidelines and Body Weight in Youth

Author/s: Zhu, X, Healy, S, Haegele, JA, Patterson, F

Objective

To examine the prevalence of youth meeting the 24-hour healthy movement guidelines (ie, ≥60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, ≤2 hours of screen time, age-appropriate sleep duration), and which combination of meeting these guidelines was most associated with...

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24-hour healthy movement screen time sleep physical activity children adolescent

Practice: Five things to know about edible cannabis

Author/s: Zipursky, J.S., Bogler, O.D., Stall, N.M.

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edible cannabis

Association of use of cleaning products with respiratory health in a Canadian birth cohort

Author/s: McCandless, L., Parks, J., Dharma, C., Brook, J., Turvey, S.E., Mandhane, P., Becker, A.B., Kozyrskyj, A.L., Azad, M.B., Moraes, T.J., Lefebvre, D.L., Sears, M.R., Subbarao, P., Scott, J., Takaro, T.K.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Comprehensive longitudinal studies are important for understanding the complex risk factors, pathways, exposures and interactions that lead to the development and persistence of asthma. We aimed to examine associations between use of household...

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Respiratory medicine family medicine

Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

Author/s: Chen, N, Zhou, M, Dong, X, Qu, J, Gong, F, Han, Y, Qiu, Y, Wang, J, Liu, Y, Wei, Y, Xia, J, Yu, T, Zhang, X, Zhang, L

BACKGROUND:

In December, 2019, a pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerged in Wuhan, China. We aimed to further clarify the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 2019-nCoV pneumonia.

METHODS:

In this retrospective, single-centre study...

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coronavirus 2019-nCOV 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia China

Zinc lozenges and the common cold: a meta-analysis comparing zinc acetate and zinc gluconate, and the role of zinc dosage

Author/s: Hemilia, H.

OBJECTIVE:

To compare the efficacy of zinc acetate lozenges with zinc gluconate lozenges in common cold treatment and to examine the dose-dependency of the effect.

DESIGN:

Meta-analysis.

SETTING:

Placebo-controlled zinc lozenge trials, in which the zinc dose...

Keywords/Tags:
common cold randomised controlled trials respiratory tract infections therapeutic equivalency

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