52. Should You Question Santa's Health?

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...

17 Juli 20249min

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

15 Juli 202410min

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...

10 Juli 20245min

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2818624Conclusion--“Cardiovascular biomarkers were strongly associated with fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events and mortality. The addition ...

9 Juli 20246min

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...

8 Juli 20247min

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38598573/In fully vaccinated adults with a risk factor or unvaccinated patients without a risk factor who have symptomatic COVID-19, does paxlovid--nirmatrelvir-ritonav...

5 Juli 20245min

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2314063Randomized trials have shown the benefit of endovascular thrombectomy in patients with acute stroke due to large-artery occlusion in the anterior circulat...

3 Juli 20247min

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.047438We studied the risk of IS and ICH in women using LG-IUDs—aka mirana-- compared to women not using hormonal contraceptives.  The commonl...

2 Juli 20245min