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Sotagliflozin use in T2D patients linked with posthospitalization benefits in analysis
The paper’s outcome measure may be a meaningful, patient-centered way of capturing disease burden, according to the authors.
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New data on COVID-19’s cognitive fallout
“Low levels of oxygen in the brain could lead to confusion, headache, and brain fog, and cause the cognitive disturbances that we see.”
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Fact or fiction? Intravascular contrast and acute kidney injury
The risks of contrast-associated AKI are overstated, implying the truer danger lies with inadequate imaging.
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Safety-net burden linked with poorer inpatient cirrhosis outcomes
Even so, hospitalizations and mortality were still higher in Black patients than White patients after controlling for hospitals’ safety-net burden...
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Prophylactic anticoagulation tied to lower death rate in COVID
Prophylactic use of low-dose anticoagulation to prevent venous thromboembolism was associated with reduced 60-day mortality in patients...
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U.S., international MIS-C studies yield disparate results
The two real-world observational studies were published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Reversal agents curb DOAC-related bleeding but deaths still high
The meta-analysis of more than 4,000 patients also showed thrombotic events were more frequent with andexanet than with 4PCC or idarucizumab.
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AHA: Don’t delay COVID shot while CDC reviews myocarditis cases
It remains unclear if suspected myocarditis cases have any direct link to COVID vaccines, and the benefits of vaccination continue to ‘far exceed...
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‘COVID toes’ chilblain-like lesions not related to COVID-19
Dr. Discepolo and colleagues evaluated 17 adolescents who presented with chilblain-like lesions of the toes during the first wave of the pandemic...
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More obese, diabetic, chronically ill kids hospitalized with COVID-19
Children with diabetes, obesity, and cardiac and circulatory congenital anomalies were more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 and to be...