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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 24, 2014
Key clinical point: Encourage patients taking statins to follow recommended dietary guidelines.Major finding: In 2009-2010, statin users consumed ...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 24, 2014
Major finding: Compared with nonusers, new users of benzodiazepines were significantly more likely to be prescribed oral corticosteroids or respir...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 24, 2014
Major finding: At week 24, adjusted mean change in HbA1c was –0.77% for patients treated with 25 mg empagliflozin vs.
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 24, 2014
Major finding: At week 24, adjusted mean change in HbA1c was –0.77% for patients treated with 25 mg empagliflozin vs.
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 23, 2014
Major finding: Of 17 patients who presented with diffuse cutaneous erythema without superimposed plaques or tumors, 13 fully remitted on low-dose ...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 22, 2014
Major finding: Status epilepticus ceased by 10 minutes and did not recur for at least 30 minutes in 101 (72.1%) patients treated with diazepam and...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 22, 2014
Major finding: After 6 months of treatment, the acetazolamide group had an average perimetric mean deviation of –2.10 dB, compared with &nda...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 21, 2014
Major finding: For every additional day of bed rest during acute lung injury, survivors lost up to 11% in muscle strength at 24-month follow-up.Da...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 18, 2014
Major finding: Men with at least one prostate biopsy core with inflammation had 2.24 times the odds of high-grade prostate cancer as men who had n...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 17, 2014
Major Finding: At 12 months, patients who received intra-articular injections of 100 micrograms sprifermin had significantly less total and latera...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 14, 2014
Major finding: At 23-year follow-up, the intervention group had a 41% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, a 29% lower risk of all-caus...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 14, 2014
Major finding: At 23-year follow-up, the intervention group had a 41% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, a 29% lower risk of all-caus...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 14, 2014
Major Finding: Performance ranking changed for 28% of hospitals when calculations of risk-standardized pneumonia mortality rates included patients...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 11, 2014
Major finding: Women had a significantly increased risk of bladder cancer recurrence (hazard ratio, 1.16; P = .03) and of cancer-specific mortalit...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 10, 2014
Major finding: At week 32, patients treated with liraglutide had a 0.99% decrease in HbA1c, compared with a 0.78% decrease for patients who receiv...
