Cannabis use tied to risk of COVID-19 hospitalizations, ICU admissions
Jun 25, 2024
The findings persisted even after considering cigarette smoking, vaccination status, comorbidities and other risk factors.
2021 to 2022 saw decrease in telemedicine use in past 12 months
Jun 20, 2024
Among adults aged 65 years and older, those who only had Medicare were less likely to use telemedicine.
Medically advised aspirin use lower in 2021 than 2012 to 2017
Jun 24, 2024
Compared with 2012 to 2017, in 2021, medically advised aspirin use for primary prevention was lower (19.3 versus 27.6 to 31.2% among adults aged 60 to 69 years; 30.6 versus 38.35 to 41.6% among those aged...
Hospital nursing resources tied to COVID-19 survival
Jun 24, 2024
“If all hospitals in the study had superior nursing resources prior to or during the pandemic, models estimate many thousands of deaths among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 could have been avoided,”...
CDC advises updated COVID vaccine for everyone over 6 months of age
Jun 28, 2024
Americans 65 and older account for two-thirds of COVID hospitalizations and 82% of in-hospital deaths, yet only about 40% of Americans in that age group were immunized with the COVID vaccines that were...
Vigorous physical activity may preserve cognitive function in high-risk HTN
Jun 24, 2024
High versus low vigorous physical activity was linked to a lower risk of mild cognitive impairment, probable dementia and MCI/probable dementia in a multivariate model.
Preoperative frailty tied to postoperative outcomes in older adults
Jun 19, 2024
Frailty was a better predictor of outcomes than was the operative stress score.
2017 to 2022 saw rise in cannabis-related disorder encounters in seniors
Jun 18, 2024
The greatest rates were seen in states or territories with both adult and medical use legalization.
Fewer adults eligible for statins with PREVENT equations
Jun 21, 2024
Compared with the pooled cohort equations, the mean estimated 10-year ASCVD risk was lower using the PREVENT equations across all age, sex and racial subgroups, with the largest difference seen for Black...
1999 to 2020 saw diet quality improve among U.S. adults
Jun 17, 2024
However, disparities in diet quality were persistent or worsened by age, sex, race and ethnicity, education and income.