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Salt intake associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk
“These findings provide support that reduction of adding salt to foods may act as a potential behavioral intervention approach for preventing T2D...
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Short steroid taper tested with tocilizumab for giant cell arteritis
Results from a pilot study examining a shortened prednisone taper of 8 weeks’ length rather than 26 weeks suggest it may be possible to reduce...
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AAD updates guidelines for managing AD with phototherapy and systemic therapies
The work group recommended the inclusion of active comparator arms in randomized, controlled trials as new systemic therapies continue to be...
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Classification identifies four stages of heart attack
“Even inside the hospital, we have heterogeneity in mortality risk. But we are not paying attention to one patient differently than the other,...
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In MI with anemia, results may favor liberal transfusion: MINT
This study is “not a home run,” for the primary outcome, however, many of the outcomes tended to be in favor of a liberal transfusion strategy.
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Study: CBD provides symptom relief and improvements in gastroparesis
Phase 2 trial shows promise in CBD as a treatment option for gastroparesis.
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Specialty-trained pathologists more likely to make higher-grade diagnoses for melanocytic lesions
A total of 338 pathologists were included in the exploratory analysis; 225 were dermatopathologists.
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Meta-analysis of postcancer use of immunosuppressive therapies shows no increase in cancer recurrence risk
Findings could guide clinical decision making for starting immunosuppression in patients with a history of malignancy.
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Particulate pollution increases the risk for breast cancer
“There is now strong epidemiological and biological evidence for the link between PM2.5 particulate exposure and cancer ...”
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Standing BP measures improve hypertension diagnosis
“Standing office BP has acceptable discriminative capabilities in identifying the presence of hypertension in adults.”