Episode 322: 321. Long-Term Outcomes in Patients with Low Risk Prostate Cancer
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2819352Conclusions and Relevance In this study, 10 years after diagnosis, 49% of men remained free of progression or treatment, less than 2% dev...
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Episode 321: 320. What is the Association of Blood Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Apolipoproteins With Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11179824/This study did something smart in that they broke it down by white black Chinese and then also had 36 lab test they were looking at and they then ...
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Episode 320: 319. President Biden has COVID, Should the First Lady Take Paxlovid?
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309002In this placebo-controlled trial, postexposure prophylaxis with nirmatrelvir–ritonavir for 5 or 10 days did not significantly reduce the risk of symp...
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Episode 319: 318. Risk of Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in Patients Prescribed Semaglutide
Risk of Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in Patients Prescribed Semaglutidethis paper out in JAMA makes you think this is an issue but likely just too much noise with only 17 patietns a...
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Episode 318: 317. METHODS MONDAY- What is a Confounder?
Be careful, most observational data have a large amount of confounders not accounted for and even when accounted for you can never account for all the confounders
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Episode 317: 316. Guideline for the Management of Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001251. Diagnosis:To establish a PAD diagnosis, the resting ankle–brachial index (ABI) remains the initial test of choice in patients with suggest...
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Episode 316: 315. Prognostic Value of Cardiovascular Biomarkers in the Population
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2818624Conclusion--“Cardiovascular biomarkers were strongly associated with fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events and mortality. The addition ...
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Episode 315: 314. METHODS MONDAY! What Is A C-Score?
What are c statisticsC-statistic gives the probability a randomly selected patient who experienced an event (e.g. a disease or condition) had a higher risk score than a patient who had not experienced...
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