Walking, education intervention prevents recurrence of low back pain
Jun 28, 2024
There was a 94% probability that the intervention was cost-effective, with a willingness-to-pay threshold of $28,000.
Multivitamin use not linked to mortality benefit in US adults
Jun 26, 2024
No association was seen for multivitamin use with lower all-cause mortality risk in first or second halves of follow-up.
For the first time since the pandemic, pedestrian death rates fall in the US
Jun 25, 2024
Rates are still above prepandemic levels, however.
Substituting lower-wage staff for registered nurses tied to worse outcomes
Jun 25, 2024
Harms include avoidable patient deaths, readmissions, longer lengths of stay, excess Medicare costs and forgone cost savings.
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,”...
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.
Timing of metformin important in metformin-treated type 2 diabetes
Jun 21, 2024
Glucose lowering is greater when metformin is given before rather than with enteral glucose; this is also linked to greater GLP-1 response.
Triglyceride-glucose index independently linked to all-cause mortality
Jun 21, 2024
Association with in-hospital and one-year mortality seen for patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease
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...