SAN DIEGO — A strategy to improve the management of hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) through rapid personalized recommendations made by a dedicated kidney action team facilitates testing and other measures, but ultimately falls short in improving clinical outcomes, a randomized, multicenter study shows…
The incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) is on the rise, and recent joint guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) stress the role of primary care clinicians in prevention and management. One in three White and one in five Black Americans will develop AF in their lifetime…
Inside the rookie shooter’s quest to play in the NBA, recover from a cardiac arrest, and manage the burden and blessing of sharing the court with you-know-who…
There are no significant differences in all-cause or cardiovascular mortality with the prescription of dialysate calcium 1.50 versus 1.25 mmol/L for patients undergoing hemodialysis, according to a study published online Oct. 4 in the Clinical Kidney Journal. Karlien J. ter Meulen, from Maastricht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, and colleagues investigated the association between
Graphical abstract Geometric means (95 % confidence intervals) of (A) high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI, ng/L), a marker of cardiac injury, and (B) N-terminal pro-b-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP, pg/mL), a marker of cardiac strain, according to vitamin D3 supplementation assignment at baseline (Bl) and after 3-month, 12-month, and 24-month periods. Credit: American Journal of Preventive
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Trial profile. Credit: The Lancet Healthy Longevity (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.07.008 A new study across five European countries is the largest randomized controlled trial to date evaluating the efficacy of a combined hearing and vision rehabilitation intervention for people with dementia living at home. The new study led by Trinity College and the Global Brain Health
MedPage Today) — For a range of hospitalized patients at risk of worsening heart failure (HF), tying medical interventions to cardiac monitoring seemed safe thus far according to the small ALLEVIATE-HF trial. There were no serious adverse events…
MedPage Today) — A nonselective extracorporeal blood purification (EBP) device connected to the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit during surgery reduced the risk of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI), a randomized trial found…
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