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Inadequate pain relief in OA, high opioid use before TKA
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- Sara Freeman
Rates of inadequate pain relief in knee and hip OA, and high opioid use before total knee replacement surgery were reported in separate studies at...
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Weight gain may exacerbate structural damage in knee OA
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- Sara Freeman
Weight changes can have a significant effect on the structural progression of knee OA, according to new findings from Osteoarthritis Initiative...
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High comorbidity rate seen before osteoarthritis diagnosis
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- Sara Freeman
More than 40 medical conditions were positively associated with having a new diagnosis of osteoarthritis in a large, nested case-control study.
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Early meniscal surgery on par with active rehab in under 40s
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- Sara Freeman
Early meniscal surgery in people aged under 40 years was not better than an exercise and education program in the randomized controlled DREAM...
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Artificial intelligence aids assessment of UC activity, remission
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- Sara Freeman
AI systems have the potential to supplement the services of expert histopathologists and endoscopists rather than replace them.
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Endoscopic healing of Crohn’s disease could differ by biologic
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- Sara Freeman
Infliximab biosimilar and adalimumab resulted in better endoscopic healing rates than either vedolizumab or ustekinumab in a post-hoc pooled...
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IBD-VTE score serves as reminder to assess postdischarge risk
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- Sara Freeman
The new score is based on data from a large number of patients and uses eight readily available patient factors.
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LUCENT-1: Mirikizumab sees phase 3 success in UC treatment
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- Sara Freeman
Mirikizumab targets a subunit of interleukin 23, which has shown promise in other conditions.
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‘Superdonor’ samples don’t increase FMT success in ulcerative colitis
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- Sara Freeman
RESTORE-UC trial results contradict positive results seen in previous trials despite using highly standardized, “superdonor” samples.
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More exercise for people with hemophilia, experts advise
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- Sara Freeman
Physical activity can improve “quality of life” in people with hemophilia.
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What are the cardiorenal differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
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- Sara Freeman
Heart failure may be as much, if not more of, a problem in people with type 1 diabetes as type 2 diabetes, researchers suggested.
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Estimating insulin resistance may help predict stroke, death in T2D
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- Sara Freeman
The estimated glucose disposal rate may be useful way to determine first stroke risk in type 2 diabetes.
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Aspirin lowered preeclampsia risk in real-world lupus study
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- Sara Freeman
A prospective, single-center study of pregnancies during 1995-2020 showed a reduced risk for preeclampsia among high-risk women with systemic...
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‘Multimorbidity’ more commonly seen in people with lupus
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- Sara Freeman
Two studies find that patients with either systemic or cutaneous disease have higher rates of multiple comorbidities, including those commonly...
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Lupus may confer higher risk of death from COVID-19
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- Sara Freeman
SLE had a greater impact on mortality and other poor outcomes than did all the other comorbidities considered in a cross-sectional study of COVID-...