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Mashup Score: 2Generalizability of Randomized Clinical Trial Outcomes for... : Annals of Surgery Open - 4 day(s) ago
of trial participants may not be representative of patients receiving treatment in the real world. There is a need to assess how the results of RCTs generalize to all contemporary patient populations undergoing treatments. Methods: All patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) between January 8, 2018 and May 19, 2023 had their baseline characteristics, weight change, and diabetes control compared with those enrolled in the surgical treatment and medications potentially eradicate diabetes efficiently (STAMPEDE) and diabetes surgery study (DSS) RCTs of bariatric surgery’s effect on diabetes control. Weight loss and diabetes control were compared between UCLA patients who did and did not fit the entry criteria for these RCTs. Results: Only 65 (17%) of 387 patients with diabetes fulfilled the eligibility criteria for STAMPEDE, and 29 (7.5%) fulfilled the criteria for DSS due to being older, having higher body mass index, and lower HbA1c. UCLA pat
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Mashup Score: 8Generalizability of Randomized Clinical Trial Outcomes for... : Annals of Surgery Open - 5 day(s) ago
of trial participants may not be representative of patients receiving treatment in the real world. There is a need to assess how the results of RCTs generalize to all contemporary patient populations undergoing treatments. Methods: All patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) between January 8, 2018 and May 19, 2023 had their baseline characteristics, weight change, and diabetes control compared with those enrolled in the surgical treatment and medications potentially eradicate diabetes efficiently (STAMPEDE) and diabetes surgery study (DSS) RCTs of bariatric surgery’s effect on diabetes control. Weight loss and diabetes control were compared between UCLA patients who did and did not fit the entry criteria for these RCTs. Results: Only 65 (17%) of 387 patients with diabetes fulfilled the eligibility criteria for STAMPEDE, and 29 (7.5%) fulfilled the criteria for DSS due to being older, having higher body mass index, and lower HbA1c. UCLA pat
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Mashup Score: 0Doctors and 'experts' who got it wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic - 6 month(s) ago
Some are asking for forgiveness. Do they deserve it?
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EDD provides Californians with unemployment, disability and parental leave benefits—if they can get their claims processed.
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Rachel Weber, who teaches at UMass Amherst, sparred with a student who asked her to condemn terrorism. She stated that “it’s not a yes or no question” following Hamas’s attack.
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Mashup Score: 1MSN | Outlook, Office, Skype, Bing, Breaking News, and Latest Videos - 6 month(s) ago
Your customizable and curated collection of the best in trusted news plus coverage of sports, entertainment, money, weather, travel, health and lifestyle, combined with Outlook/Hotmail, Facebook, Twitter, Bing, Skype and more.
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Mashup Score: 1TikTok · Mayim Bialik - 6 month(s) ago
Check out Mayim Bialik’s video.
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Mashup Score: 3Healthcare Workers’ Pay to Rise in California Under New Deal - 6 month(s) ago
Unions and industry groups struck their second pact in two days, with the latest agreement potentially affecting as many as half a million employees statewide.
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Mashup Score: 13Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed? - 10 month(s) ago
Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny.
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Mashup Score: 2COVID-19 Outbreaks and Mortality Among Public... - 1 year(s) ago
This report describes the mortality rate of public transportation workers from illness caused by COVID-19 infection.
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1/2 Another figure from our article on generalizability of RCTs (https://t.co/uZRRMXM64Y) Box-Whisker plot for HbA1c looks just like others published for bariatric surgery but note how they hide the substantial heterogeneity that patients exhibit. https://t.co/C5aNGlDIgU