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Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA NHANES (2013–2018)

BMJ

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001139 Prediabetes, a health condition with blood sugar levels higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes, increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Of those, 76.8%

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Declining Uveitic Glaucoma Incidence and Subtype Risks

Physician's Weekly

They used the TriNetX US database to identify a uveitic glaucoma cohort, including patients with ICD-10 codes for uveitis and either glaucoma, ocular hypertension, or corticosteroid response diagnosed on the same day or after uveitis onset. years); 55.0% (n=16,875, 95% CI 54.4-55.9%) 55.9%) were female, and 50.7% (n=15,555, 95% CI 50.1-51.3%)

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Diagnostic accuracy of electrocardiography and NT-proBNP for mild cardiac dysfunction among long-term breast cancer survivors [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

While echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose LVSD, its limited accessibility in primary care poses challenges. Setting or Dataset: A dataset was used, consisting of 350 long-term female breast cancer survivors included between 2013 and 2016 in general practices in the Netherlands.

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Long-Term Cancer Risk After Active Surveillance

Physician's Weekly

They implemented a nationwide population-based cohort study in Denmark, including all female residents diagnosed with incident cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 between ages 18–40 from 1998 to 2020. The primary outcome was vulvar, vaginal, anal cancer, or precancer.

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Fast Facts: Traumatic Bladder Rupture

PEMBlog

To diagnose bladder rupture, CT cystography is the preferred diagnostic test. While routine CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis can differentiate between intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal fluid, they are unreliable for diagnosing bladder rupture since they cannot distinguish urine from ascites (fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity).

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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

A struggle for enough staffing When the federal government launched the readmission penalty program in 2013, staff with OSF HealthCare knew their readmission rates fueled by bouncebacks from SNFs were running between 18% and 25%. It also has a 30-day readmission rate that’s dramatically below what it used to be.

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A New Outlook: How Carrier Screening Shaped One Family’s Future

Myriad Genetics

Because we’d had the carrier screen, we could make a plan: [Emily] was tested at three days old, diagnosed at five days old, and treated at 5.5 1 , 1–15 (2013). Further, their knowledge that they were both carriers helped the Pantiers get things in place for the birth of their second child, Emily. & Boice, N. Committee Opinion No.