Sickle Cell Disease & Sleep
Patients with sickle cell disease who have shorter sleep duration, fragmented sleep, or...
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Defining Rx Opioid Overdose Risk
Patients who use multiple pharmacies concurrently and have overlapping opioid prescriptions appear...
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Depression & Low Back Pain
Patients with symptoms of depression appear to have a higher risk of developing an episode of low...
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Manage AF Risk Factors Aggressively
Aggressive risk factor management appears to improve the long-term success of atrial fibrillation...
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The High Healthcare Costs of Smoking
Researchers in the United States estimate that nearly 9% of annual healthcare spending in 2010...
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Pulmonary Embolism in Older Patients
Patients aged 65 and older appear to present with more severe pulmonary embolisms and have a...
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Injection Drug Use, Hepatitis C, & HIV
A substantial percentage of the excess mortality in HIV-infected injection drug users (IDUs)...
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Is CD4 Count Monitoring Effective?
Study investigators suggest that annual CD4 cell count monitoring in virally suppressed HIV...
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Contraception Among HIV-Positive Women
Results of a meta-analysis indicate that HIV and contraceptive methods can interact in various...
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Trends in HAV Infection
The incidence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection appears to have declined from 6.0 to 0.4 cases...
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How Common Is Hypertensive Recidivism?
Findings from a large study indicate that hypertensive recidivism appears to occur in nearly 25%...
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Gender & AMI Recovery
Women appear to have worse health than men after experiencing an acute myocardial infarction...
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Incretin Therapy & Pancreatitis Risk
Use of incretin-based drugs does not appear to increase risks for acute pancreatitis, according to...
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Risk Factor Control at Time of AMI
Patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) appear to have suboptimal control of heart attack...
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Lipid Guidelines for Young Adults
Applying pediatric guidelines for lipid levels—as opposed to adult guidelines—could result more...
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ICDs for Low Ejection Fraction After AMI
Less than 10% of eligible older patients with low ejection fraction following acute myocardial...
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Transapical Vs Transfemoral TAVR
American researchers suggest that vasculopathic patients who undergo transapical transcatheter...
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Diabetes in the ED: Opportunities for Improvement
According to 2011 estimates, about 79 million Americans had prediabetes and another 7 million were...
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Having fully accessible MRI in the ED appears to substantially increase MRI use and improve patient outcomes, according to a single-site study. After MRI became fully accessible available, MRI use in the ED increased by 38.4%...
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Controlling AF in the ED
Investigators have found that attempts at rate and rhythm control among ED patients with complex...
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