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Statin users ate more, gained more weight during 1999-2010
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- Amy Karon
Key clinical point: Encourage patients taking statins to follow recommended dietary guidelines.Major finding: In 2009-2010, statin users consumed...
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Benzodiazepines linked to worsened COPD in older adults
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: Compared with nonusers, new users of benzodiazepines were significantly more likely to be prescribed oral corticosteroids or...
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Adding empagliflozin to metformin improved glycemic control in type 2 diabetes
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: At week 24, adjusted mean change in HbA1c was –0.77% for patients treated with 25 mg empagliflozin vs.
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Improve Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: At week 24, adjusted mean change in HbA1c was –0.77% for patients treated with 25 mg empagliflozin vs.
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Cutaneous erythema predicted low-dose alemtuzumab response in leukemic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: Of 17 patients who presented with diffuse cutaneous erythema without superimposed plaques or tumors, 13 fully remitted on low-dose...
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Lorazepam not superior to diazepam in pediatric status epilepticus
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: Status epilepticus ceased by 10 minutes and did not recur for at least 30 minutes in 101 (72.1%) patients treated with diazepam and...
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Acetazolamide improved vision in patients with high intracranial pressure
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: After 6 months of treatment, the acetazolamide group had an average perimetric mean deviation of –2.10 dB, compared with –2.82 dB...
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Bed rest after lung injury linked to muscle weakness, functional impairments
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: For every additional day of bed rest during acute lung injury, survivors lost up to 11% in muscle strength at 24-month follow-up....
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Chronic inflammation linked to high-grade prostate cancer
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: Men with at least one prostate biopsy core with inflammation had 2.24 times the odds of high-grade prostate cancer as men who had...
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Sprifermin injections showed some benefits for cartilage loss in knee osteoarthritis
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- Amy Karon
Major Finding: At 12 months, patients who received intra-articular injections of 100 micrograms sprifermin had significantly less total and...
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Diet, exercise in prediabetes may prevent long-term progression and mortality
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: At 23-year follow-up, the intervention group had a 41% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, a 29% lower risk of all-...
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Diet, Exercise Help Delay Onset of Diabetes
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: At 23-year follow-up, the intervention group had a 41% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, a 29% lower risk of all-...
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Coding practices could bias pneumonia mortality rates
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- Amy Karon
Major Finding: Performance ranking changed for 28% of hospitals when calculations of risk-standardized pneumonia mortality rates included patients...
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Women had worse survival after radical cystectomy
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: Women had a significantly increased risk of bladder cancer recurrence (hazard ratio, 1.16; P = .03) and of cancer-specific...
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Newcomer misses noninferiority mark against established GLP-1 receptor agonist
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- Amy Karon
Major finding: At week 32, patients treated with liraglutide had a 0.99% decrease in HbA1c, compared with a 0.78% decrease for patients who...