Questioning Medicine

Weight gain <5 kg was not associated with risk for the composite outcome among women with class 1 and 2 obesity (BMIs, ≥30–39.9 kg/m2). Weight gain <5 kg and weight loss were associated with lower ris...

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Chair placement was not associated with a difference in patients’ ability to name their physician (P=1.0), ability to successfully identify their reason for hospital admission (P=0.82), or perceptions...

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primary outcome was Duration of the first stage of labor was the primary outcome. AND It was 179 minutes shorter (95% CI 146 - 213) in the intervention group than in the control group (392 minutes; st...

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In older adults, mildly elevated TSH levels normalized in about 50% of cases during 1 to 2 years of observation.https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/109/3/e1167/7325863?login=true

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A study that was done before the widespread use of troponin only measurements for ACS (and certainly before high sensitively trop  EVER EXISTED), a trial that took place before the first statin was ev...

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This translates into an absolute excess risk of ≈9 events per 1000 person-years or 1 per 110 person years. Sad differently if you treat 110 people for 1 year with a doac and an SSRI you will have one ...

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During follow-up participants walked on average 8300 steps and those individuals in the lowest genetic risk score developed obesity defined as a BMI greater than 30 approximately 13% of the time while...

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And in the end it did not really matter because at 3 months individuals only reported a 0.16 difference in pain and a 1.6 difference in function which both were well within the noninferiority boundary...

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