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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: June 1, 2013
Major finding: Universal screening for celiac disease among adolescents is not cost effective, nor is it associated with any gain in quality of li...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: June 1, 2013
Major finding: Acute-on-chronic liver failure syndrome can be divided into three classes and is distinct from acute decompensation of chronic live...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: May 1, 2013
Major finding: Peak ALT levels ranged from 140 to 2,250 U/L among patients with liver injury secondary to tumor necrosis factor–alpha antago...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: May 1, 2013
Major finding: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes among celiac disease patients was 3.1%, compared with 9.6% among control patients without celiac ...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: May 1, 2013
Major finding: Irritable bowel syndrome patients on a gluten-free diet had fewer bowel movements per day than did gluten-consuming counterparts (P...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: May 1, 2013
Major finding: By 24 months after initial NSAID/PPI coprescription, the persistence probability of still having an active PPI prescription fell to...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: April 25, 2013
Major finding: A regimen containing sofosbuvir gave 90% of patients with genotype 1 or 4 HCV infection an SVR at 12 weeks, whereas genotype 2 and ...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: April 24, 2013
Major finding: Patients with comorbid substance use and psychotic disorders can benefit from standard substance use treatments, even though they d...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: April 1, 2013
Major finding: Patients with manometric type II achalasia have higher success rates after dilation (93%) as well as myotomy (100%) at 1 year, comp...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: April 1, 2013
Major finding: Magnetic resonance colonography had a sensitivity of 78.4% for detecting adenomas greater than or equal to 6 mm.Data source: A blin...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: April 1, 2013
Major finding: In Barrett’s esophagus, use of proton pump inhibitors was associated with a hazard ratio of 0.21 for neoplastic progression.D...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: March 27, 2013
Major finding: Rheumatoid arthritis patients who had an MI had a 47% greater risk of death than did matched control patients after a median follow...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: March 25, 2013
Major finding: At 156 weeks after initiation of mycophenolate mofetil, patients with connective tissue disease–associated interstitial lung ...
News
- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: March 14, 2013
Major finding: Among patients with schizophrenia, a task designed to assess social cognition was unable to explain any variation on the Global Ass...
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- Author:
- Denise Napoli
Publish date: March 14, 2013
Major finding: Among patients with ultrahigh risk for psychosis, 58.2% had clinical depression; 42.3% had social phobia.Data source: A total of 20...
