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Mashup Score: 8My battle with cancer. Part 1 - 13 hour(s) ago
In January 2023, diagnosed with numerous metastases of lung cancer in my brain, I felt that I must accomplish a mission. If everything happens for a reason, my cancer, in particular, I must find out how metastatic cancer can be treated with curative intent. …
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Mashup Score: 0Feasibility and acceptability of a virtual mindfulness intervention for Black adults with PTSD and depression: Randomized controlled trial - 13 hour(s) ago
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) offers promise as a group-based intervention to alleviate posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms in traumatized Black adults. Given the high level of barriers that exist for low-income Black …
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Mashup Score: 0Strategies to Minimize Sternal and Leg Wound Complications after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Using No-Touch Saphenous Vein Grafts - 1 day(s) ago
Purpose: The aims of the present study were to examine sternal and saphenous vein (SV) harvest site wound complication rates, and to assess the strategies to minimize the sternal and leg wound complications after coronary artery bypass grafting using …
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Mashup Score: 1Premature Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Degeneration Associated with Allergy to Galactose-Alpha-1,3-Galactose - 2 day(s) ago
We present the cases of two patients with bioprosthetic aortic valves who developed an allergy to alpha-gal. Each had premature degeneration of their bioprosthesis and demonstrated rapidly increasing transvalvular gradients after development of their …
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Mashup Score: 11
Identification of hospitalized patients with suddenly unfavorable clinical course remains challenging. Models using objective data elements from the electronic health record may miss important sources of information available to nurses.We recorded nurses’ …
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Mashup Score: 146
Recent guidelines recommend that patients with heart failure and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) 40–49% should be managed similar to LVEF ≥ 50%. We investigated the effect of beta-blockers according to LVEF in …
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🔺There is no high-quality evidence to support use of #BetaBlockers in #HFpEF https://t.co/jYfTPnGUiR 🔺In absence of other indications, consider withdrawing BBs from HFpEF regimen, especially in setting of #chronotropic incompetence (ie chronotropic index <0.62 during max #CPET) https://t.co/U1wYvLR1tF https://t.co/3PUWqpKh2F
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Mashup Score: 32
Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is an asymptomatic precursor condition that precedes multiple myeloma and related disorders but has also been associated with other medical conditions. Since systematic screening is not recommended, …
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Mashup Score: 322Effects of Diet on Sleep Quality - 4 day(s) ago
There is much emerging information surrounding the impact of sleep duration and quality on food choice and consumption in both children and adults. However, less attention has been paid to the effects of dietary patterns and specific foods on nighttime …
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Mashup Score: 141
Recent guidelines recommend that patients with heart failure and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) 40–49% should be managed similar to LVEF ≥ 50%. We investigated the effect of beta-blockers according to LVEF in …
Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.govCategories: General Medicine News, CardiologistsTweet-
🔺There is no high-quality evidence to support use of #BetaBlockers in #HFpEF https://t.co/jYfTPnGUiR 🔺In absence of other indications, consider withdrawing BBs from HFpEF regimen, especially in setting of #chronotropic incompetence (ie chronotropic index <0.62 during max #CPET) https://t.co/U1wYvLR1tF https://t.co/3PUWqpKh2F
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Mashup Score: 3Criticisms of the OCTET Trial findings - 4 day(s) ago
As mentioned above, the OCTET Trial has provoked a vigorous international debate with several published letters305–310 and even articles devoted entirely to critiquing it.312–314 These critiques mostly revolve around the nature of the control arm, protocol violations, sample selection and the choice of primary outcome measure. These publications have offered an opportunity to clarify inevitable confusions arising from presenting such a complex trial in the condensed form required by The Lancet, and we have responded to most of these critiques in print.18,315–318 The same concerns were presented in differing forms by several of the respondents and can be summarised as follows.
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RT @Blagosklonny: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. https://t.co/IRUbaIL9UF