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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

This ideally should be detected in primary care, since most specialist follow-up care for breast cancer is discontinued after five years. While echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose LVSD, its limited accessibility in primary care poses challenges. For NT-proBNP, a sensitivity of 50.9% were found.

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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% Did doctors’ advice facilitate people’s practice of lifestyle change?