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Socioeconomic deprivation and post-stroke care in the community
Br J Gen Pract. 2023 Jan 26;73(727):56-57. doi: 10.3399/bjgp23X731781. Print 2023 Feb.NO ABSTRACTPMID:36702607 | PMC:PMC9888554 | DOI:10.3399/bjgp23X731781
Source: The British Journal of General Practice - January 26, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Anna Pawlak Eugene Yee Hing Tang Source Type: research
Associations of ophthalmic and systemic conditions with incident dementia in the UK Biobank
Conclusions
AMD, cataract and DRED but not glaucoma are associated with an increased risk of dementia. Individuals with both ophthalmic and systemic conditions are at higher risk of dementia compared with those with an ophthalmic or systemic condition only.
Source: British Journal of Ophthalmology - January 20, 2023 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Shang, X., Zhu, Z., Huang, Y., Zhang, X., Wang, W., Shi, D., Jiang, Y., Yang, X., He, M. Tags: Press releases Original articles - Clinical science Source Type: research
Thousands at risk of heart attacks due to Covid disruption, experts warn
Patients in England, Scotland and Wales missed out on starting blood pressure-lowering drugs, British Heart Foundation saysThousands of people are at risk of avoidable heart attacks and strokes, experts have warned, after nearly 500,000 people in England, Scotland and Wales missed out on starting blood pressure-lowering drugs during the pandemic.Researchers said that thousands of people could suffer a preventable cardiovascular event because they did not start taking vital medications known to stave off deadly heart and circulatory diseases amid the Covid related disruption to healthcare.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Heart attack Coronavirus Science UK news Stroke Voluntary sector NHS Source Type: news
Unlucky numbers: Fighting murder convictions that rest on shoddy stats
LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—
When a Dutch nurse named Lucia de Berk stood trial for serial murder in 2003, statistician Richard Gill was aware of the case. But he saw no reason to stick his nose into it.
De Berk was a pediatric nurse at Juliana Children’s Hospital in The Hague. In 2001, after a baby died while she was on duty, a colleague told superiors that De Berk had been present at a suspiciously high number of deaths and resuscitations. Hospital staff immediately informed the police. When investigators reexamined records from De Berk’s shifts, they found 10 suspicious incidents. Three other hospitals where D...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - January 19, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy: clinical presentation and risk of stroke and transient ischaemic attack
CONCLUSIONS: The presence of headache cannot reliably predict those at risk of stroke/TIA. Individuals presenting with acute posterior multifocal pigment epitheliopathy should therefore undergo a clinical neurological review and work-up for cerebral vasculitis as deemed appropriate by the treating ophthalmologist and collaborating neurologist.PMID:36657959 | DOI:10.1136/bjo-2022-321517
Source: The British Journal of Ophthalmology - January 19, 2023 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Rachael L Niederer Priya D Samalia Yi-Hsing Chen Jonathan Ks Goh Elisa Eleanor Cornish Stephen Guest Peter J McCluskey Lyndell L Lim Joanne L Sims Susan Lightman Oren Tomkins-Netzer Source Type: research
500,000 missed out on blood pressure lowering drugs during pandemic
Nearly half a million people missed out on starting medication to lower their blood pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research supported by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Data Science Centre at Health Data Research UK published today in Nature Medicine.
The researchers say that thousands of people could suffer an avoidable heart attack or stroke due to delays in starting these vital medications known to stave-off deadly heart and circulatory diseases.
Source: World Pharma News - January 19, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Anti-stroke drug taken by millions found to be 'unreliable' and fatal side effects were ignored
In 2009, distinguished British medical journal The Lancet published a major study on the blood thinner rivaroxaban, which appeared to show it was safe and effective.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Empagliflozin cardiovascular and renal effectiveness and safety compared to dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors across 11 countries in Europe and Asia: Results from the EMPagliflozin compaRative effectIveness and SafEty (EMPRISE) study
Diabetes Metab. 2023 Jan 3:101418. doi: 10.1016/j.diabet.2022.101418. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Continued expansion of indications for sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors increases importance of evaluating cardiovascular and kidney efficacy and safety of empagliflozin in patients with type 2 diabetes compared to similar therapies.METHODS: The EMPRISE Europe and Asia study is a non-interventional cohort study using data from 2014-2019 in seven European (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom) and four Asian (Israel, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) countries. Patients with type 2 d...
Source: Diabetes and Metabolism - January 7, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Avraham Karasik Stefanie Lanzinger Elise Chia-Hui Tan Daisuke Yabe Dae Jung Kim Wayne H-H Sheu Cheli Melzer-Cohen Reinhard W Holl Kyoung Hwa Ha Kamlesh Khunti Francesco Zaccardi Anuradhaa Subramanian Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar Thomas Nystr öm Leo Niska Source Type: research
