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Growing Overlap of COPD, Severe Obesity, and Sleep Apnea

Physician's Weekly

They analyzed using NHANES data from 2005–2008 and 2015–March 2020. kg/m 2 The results showed that from 2005–2008 to 2015–March 2020, the proportion of individuals with a triple overlap of COPD, severe obesity, and HR-OSA rose from 0.653% [95% CI, 0.651–0.655%] to 1.560% [95% CI, 1.557–1.563%].

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Trends colliding: Aging comprehensive family physicians and the growing complexity of their patients

Canadian Family Physician

We compared these populations to pre-pandemic analyses (2008, 2013, and 2019). An increasing proportion of the workforce is age 65 and older (2008: 10.0%; 2013: 14.4%; 2019: 13.9%; 2022: 15.2%), and correspondingly, an increasing number and proportion of patients are attached to near-retirement FPs.

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Dramatic improvement in the prevalence of disabilities among older Americans since 2008

Medical Xpress

The prevalence of disabilities among American adults aged 65 and older is much lower than it was for the same age group a decade earlier, according to a nationally representative study published online in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH).

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Elevated BAR Signals Poor Prognosis in Patients With CKD Admitted to ICU

Physician's Weekly

The study investigated the association between BAR and 28-day mortality risk in 4,625 adult patients from the publicly available Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV database, which included health records for patients in the ICU at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center between 2008 and 2022. By tertile, mortality rates were 14.6%

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Cognitive and Motor Decline in Children With Asphyxia

Physician's Weekly

Neurodevelopment was estimated at 18–24 months (visit 1), 5–6 years (visit 2), and 8–10 years (visit 3). Standardized motor, cognitive, and behavioral assessments were used, and scores were converted into Z-scores.

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Higher Dietary Calcium Intake May Up Risk of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Physician's Weekly

Hongyuan Chang, from Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, and colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted from 2003 to 2008 to examine the association between dietary calcium intake and the risk of BPH.

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Trends in STEMI explored for women aged 18 to 55 years

Medical Xpress

For women aged 18 to 55 years, ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) hospitalization rates decreased during 2008 to 2019, with the decline driven by a reduced proportion of hospitalizations among women aged 45 to 55 years, according to a study published in the March 7 issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association.