Esophageal Cancer Disparities Declined From 1999 to 2020
From 1999 to 2020, age-adjusted esophageal cancer mortality decreased among Black adults but stabilized among White adults.
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Alopecia Linked to Autoimmune & Psychiatric Comorbidities
Compared with controls, patients with alopecia areata had greater risks for developing psychiatric and autoimmune comorbidities after their diagnosis.
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Tele-Assessment Align With Face-to-Face Assessment in MS
The Berg Balance Scale, Dynamic Gait Index, and Timed Up and Go tests were found to be reliable tests to use with online assessments of patients with MS.
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Acute Leukemia Tied to Various Ocular Manifestations
Patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia experienced various ocular manifestations, such as retinal hemorrhage.
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Genetic Risk May Influence Site-Specific Melanoma
Men and women showed different associations between high genetic risk and melanoma body sites, according to findings in the British Journal of Dermatology.
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Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy May Increase MACE in Liver Transplant
For patients undergoing liver transplant, the presence of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy was related to a trend toward increased major adverse cardiac events.
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HIV Risk Underestimated By Those on Parole
People on parole or under community supervision experience discrepancies between perceived and actual risk for HIV.
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ChatGPT Diagnoses Only Correct in Half of Cases
Researchers input 150 case challenges into ChatGPT, noting the AI struggled to interpret lab values and only produced correct diagnoses half of the time.
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HIIT + Energy Reduction Improves Liver Health in MASH
A combined intervention focusing on energy intake and interval training decreased body weight, fat mass, and liver injury in patients with MASH.
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Sleep Duration Linked to Microvascular Complications
People with type 2 diabetes who slept for short or long durations had a higher prevalence of microvascular damage, according to an abstract at EASD 2024.
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Gaps Persist for Those Ineligible for Vaccines for Children Program
Kids eligible for the Vaccines for Children program had lower coverage for measles, mumps, and rubella, rotavirus, and the combined seven-vaccine series.
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Lifestyle Factors & Gender May Influence Psoriasis Comorbidities
New findings suggest that gender, smoking status, and alcohol consumption may significantly influence which comorbidities develop in patients with psoriasis.
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Segmentectomy Could Be Alternative to Lobectomy in Early NSCLC
Segmentectomy represents a viable alternative to lobectomy for patients with early non-small cell lung cancer, while wedge resection is less favorable.
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Conventional & Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopy Comparable
A study of patients with type 2 endometrial cancer found no differences in overall survival with conventional laparoscopy versus robot-assisted laparoscopy.
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Increasing Awareness of Obesity’s Link to Heart Failure
Researchers surveyed PCPs and patients with obesity and identified gaps in the diagnosis and management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
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Elevated CMI Levels Linked to Increased Asthma Risk
Higher cardiometabolic index levels may be associated with increased asthma prevalence, both before and after adjusting for various covariates.
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Hemodynamics Add Value to PAH Risk Tools
Right atrial pressure and pulmonary artery elastance were independent predictors of mortality in a cohort of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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Sulfonamides & Cephalosporins Linked to Cutaneous Reactions
Sulfonamide antibiotics and cephalosporins are associated with serious cutaneous adverse drug reactions requiring ED visits or hospitalizations.
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AI-Enhanced OCT Analysis Helps Classify IRD Images
An automated optical coherence tomography algorithm showed the potential of using AI-assisted image processing in inherited retinal disease diagnostics.
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Influencing, Prognostic Factors of ES-HCM Identified
A study published in ESC Heart Failure identified seven influencing factors and two prognostic factors for end-stage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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