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Aim for deep remission, high troughs in Crohn’s
Major finding: Deep remission in Crohn’s disease is a novel and useful treatment target; reaching it may depend on monitoring blood levels of the...
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Standard cardiovascular risk models no good in rheumatoid arthritis
Major finding: The sensitivity of the models were 68%-87% for the risk score cut-off value of 10% (marking the difference between low-risk and...
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Bisphosphonate safe, effective in IBD
Major finding: Bisphosphonate treatment beat sodium fluoride, calcium plus vitamin D, and low-impact exercise in improving bone mineral density...
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Golimumab maintains response in UC
Major finding: At 6 weeks, more than half of ulcerative colitis patients taking golimumab had achieved clinical response, compared with less than...
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Despite benefits, ‘bundling’ endoscopy is not norm
Major finding: Of more than 12,000 Medicare patients who underwent upper and lower endoscopy, fewer than two-thirds had the procedures "bundled"...
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New diverticulosis data challenge long-held beliefs
Major finding: The development of diverticulosis is not likely related to dietary fiber intake, and the progression of diverticulosis to...
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Polypectomy bleed risk low in patients on antiplatelet agents
Major finding: Patients taking antiplatelet agents can expect a 2.4% risk of clinically important bleeds within 30 days from polypectomy; it may...
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No in vitro changes in nonceliac gluten sensitivity
Major finding: Challenging duodenal biopsy specimens with gliadin in gluten-sensitive patients without celiac disease is nondiagnostic for this...
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Novel HCV therapy leads to rapid response
Major finding: Among hepatitis C patients who received the protease inhibitor danoprevir in addition to a regimen of peginterferon alfa-2a/...
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Early azathioprine no benefit in Crohn’s
Major finding: Early azathioprine therapy did not increase the proportion of patients with sustained relapse in Crohn’s compared with placebo, and...
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RA disease activity assessed differently by patients, physicians, and ultrasound
Major finding: Disease Activity Score 28 ratings (DAS28) were significantly higher when patients assessed themselves (mean = 3.34) than when their...
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Look for bullying in psychosomatic diagnoses
Major finding: Bullied children are more than twice as likely to complain of psychosomatic problems as children who are not bullied, with an odds...
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Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii doesn't stop Crohn's relapse
Major finding: The probiotic yeast Saccharomyces boulardii does not appear to have any beneficial effects for patients with Crohn’s disease who...
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New estimates show lack of progress in liver mortality
Major finding: An updated definition of liver-related mortality shows that death rates are unchanged over 30 years: 23.9 per 100,000 persons for...