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Mashup Score: 8Meditation for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease - Rees, K - 2024 | Cochrane Library - 3 month(s) ago
Collapse all Expand all Background Interventions incorporating meditation to address stress, anxiety, and depression, and improve self‐management, are becoming popular for many health conditions. Stress is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and clusters with other modifiable behavioural risk factors, such as smoking. Meditation may therefore be a useful CVD prevention…
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Mashup Score: 5Intravenous immunoglobulin for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy - Bus, SRM - 2024 | Cochrane Library - 3 month(s) ago
Collapse all Expand all Background Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) causes progressive or relapsing weakness and numbness of the limbs, which lasts for at least two months. Uncontrolled studies have suggested that intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) could help to reduce symptoms. This is an update of a review first published in 2002 and last updated in 2013. …
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Mashup Score: 1Interventions for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus fasting during Ramadan - Lee, SW - 2023 | Cochrane Library - 3 month(s) ago
Collapse all Expand all Background Fasting during Ramadan is obligatory for adult Muslims, except those who have a medical illness. Many Muslims with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) choose to fast, which may increase their risks of hypoglycaemia and dehydration. Objectives To assess the effects of interventions for people with type 2 diabetes fasting during Ramadan. Search methods We…
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Mashup Score: 4Halo sign on temporal artery ultrasound versus temporal artery biopsy for giant cell arteritis - Pouncey, AL - 2024 | Cochrane Library - 3 month(s) ago
Collapse all Expand all Background Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a systemic, inflammatory vasculitis primarily affecting people over the age of 50 years. GCA is treated as a medical emergency due to the potential for sudden, irreversible visual loss. Temporal artery biopsy (TAB) is one of the five criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1990 classification, which is used to…
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Mashup Score: 1
Collapse all Expand all Background Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common rheumatic disease in childhood. Methotrexate has broad immunomodulatory properties and is the most commonly used disease‐modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD). This is an update of a 2001 Cochrane review. It supports a living guideline for children and young people with JIA. Objectives To assess…
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Mashup Score: 1Cochrane Reviews | Cochrane Library - 4 month(s) ago
The Cochrane Library is a collection of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the CENTRAL register of controlled trials.
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Mashup Score: 0Initial arch wires used in orthodontic treatment with fixed appliances - Liu, C - 2024 | Cochrane Library - 4 month(s) ago
Collapse all Expand all Background Initial arch wires are the first arch wires inserted into fixed appliance at the beginning of orthodontic treatment. With a number of different types of orthodontic arch wires available for initial tooth alignment, it is important to understand which are most efficient and which cause the least amount of root resorption and pain during the initial…
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Mashup Score: 5Intravenous immunoglobulin for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy - Bus, SRM - 2024 | Cochrane Library - 4 month(s) ago
Collapse all Expand all Background Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) causes progressive or relapsing weakness and numbness of the limbs, which lasts for at least two months. Uncontrolled studies have suggested that intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) could help to reduce symptoms. This is an update of a review first published in 2002 and last updated in 2013. …
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Mashup Score: 18Cognitive behavioural therapy without medication for schizophrenia - Bighelli, I - 2024 | Cochrane Library - 4 month(s) ago
Collapse all Expand all Background Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can be effective in people with schizophrenia when provided in combination with antipsychotic medication. It remains unclear whether CBT could be safely and effectively offered in the absence of concomitant antipsychotic therapy. Objectives To investigate the effects of CBT for schizophrenia when administered…
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Mashup Score: 53
Collapse all Expand all Background Infants born preterm are at increased risk of cognitive and motor impairments compared with infants born at term. Early developmental interventions for preterm infants are targeted at the infant or the parent‐infant relationship, or both, and may focus on different aspects of early development. They aim to improve developmental outcomes for these…
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This update included 19 new studies (in total 44 studies, 5051 participants). Early developmental intervention: - may improve cognitive outcomes in infancy - improves cognitive outcomes at preschool age - may not improve cognitive outcomes at school age https://t.co/JjAGGkUJvN https://t.co/8oCwDvyPqF
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The world’s leading cause of death is #CardiovascularDisease ...can #meditation help prevent it? Or help it from worsening?🧘♂️ 📚 🔍 This systematic review looked at the evidence from 81 studies w 6971 people either at high risk of or who already have #CVD https://t.co/BvZFrmHevj https://t.co/vXD5c6RzHN