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Replacing salt with low-sodium salt substitutes (LSSS) for cardiovascular health in adults, children and pregnant women
CONCLUSIONS: When compared to regular salt, LSSS probably reduce blood pressure, non-fatal cardiovascular events and cardiovascular mortality slightly in adults. However, LSSS also probably increase blood potassium slightly in adults. These small effects may be important when LSSS interventions are implemented at the population level. Evidence is limited for adults without elevated blood pressure, and there is a lack of evidence in pregnant women and people in whom an increased potassium intake is known to be potentially harmful, limiting conclusions on the safety of LSSS in the general population. We also cannot draw firm...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Amanda Brand Marianne E Visser Anel Schoonees Celeste E Naude Source Type: research
Smoking cessation for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
CONCLUSIONS: There is moderate-certainty evidence that smoking cessation is associated with a reduction of approximately one-third in the risk of recurrent cardiovascular disease in people who stop smoking at diagnosis. This association may be causal, based on the link between smoking cessation and restoration of endothelial and platelet function, where dysfunction of both can result in increased likelihood of CVD events. Our results provide evidence that there is a decreased risk of secondary CVD events in those who quit smoking compared with those who continue, and that there is a suggested improvement in quality of life...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 8, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Angela Difeng Wu Nicola Lindson Jamie Hartmann-Boyce Azizia Wahedi Anisa Hajizadeh Annika Theodoulou Elizabeth T Thomas Charlotte Lee Paul Aveyard Source Type: research
Action observation for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke
CONCLUSIONS: The effects of AO are small for arm function compared to any control group; for hand function the effects are large, but not clinically significant. For both, the certainty of evidence is low. There is no evidence of benefit or detriment from AO on ADL and quality of life of people with stroke; however, the certainty of evidence is very low. As such, our confidence in the effect estimate is limited because it will likely change with future research.PMID:35930301 | PMC:PMC9354942 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD011887.pub3
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 5, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Lorenna Rdm Borges Aline Bgs Fernandes Jacilda Oliveira Dos Passos Isabelle Ananda Oliveira Rego Tania F Campos Source Type: research
Patch angioplasty versus primary closure for carotid endarterectomy
CONCLUSIONS: Compared with primary closure, carotid patch angioplasty may reduce the risk of perioperative arterial occlusion and long-term restenosis of the operated artery. It would appear to reduce the risk of ipsilateral stroke during the perioperative and long-term period and reduce the risk of any stroke in the long-term when compared with primary closure. However, the evidence is uncertain due to the limited quality of included trials.PMID:35920689 | PMC:PMC9347312 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD000160.pub4
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 3, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Saritphat Orrapin Thoetphum Benyakorn Boonying Siribumrungwong Kittipan Rerkasem Source Type: research
Antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants for hypertension
CONCLUSIONS: There is no evidence that antiplatelet therapy modifies mortality in patients with elevated BP for primary prevention. ASA reduced the risk of cardiovascular events and increased the risk of major bleeding events. Antiplatelet therapy with ASA probably reduces the risk of non-fatal and all cardiovascular events when compared to clopidogrel. Clopidogrel increases the risk of major bleeding events compared to ASA in patients with elevated BP for secondary prevention. There is no evidence that warfarin modifies mortality in patients with elevated BP for secondary prevention. The benefits and harms of the newer dr...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - July 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Eduard Shantsila Monika Kozie ł-Siołkowska Gregory Yh Lip Source Type: research
Type of anaesthesia for acute ischaemic stroke endovascular treatment
CONCLUSIONS: In early outcomes, general anaesthesia improves target artery revascularisation compared to non-general anaesthesia with moderate-certainty evidence. General anaesthesia may improve adverse events (haemodynamic instability) compared to non-general anaesthesia with low-certainty evidence. We found no evidence of a difference in neurological impairment, stroke-related mortality, all intracranial haemorrhage and haemodynamic instability adverse events between groups with low-certainty evidence. We are uncertain whether general anaesthesia improves functional outcomes and time to revascularisation because the cert...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - July 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Renato Tosello Rachel Riera Giuliano Tosello Caroline Nb Clezar Jorge E Amorim Vladimir Vasconcelos Benedito B Joao Ronald Lg Flumignan Source Type: research
Antithrombotic therapy to prevent cognitive decline in people with small vessel disease on neuroimaging but without dementia
CONCLUSIONS: We found no convincing evidence to suggest any clinically relevant cognitive benefit of using antithrombotic therapy in addition to standard treatment in people with cerebral small vessel disease but without dementia, but there may be an increased bleeding risk with this approach. There was marked heterogeneity across the trials and the certainty of the evidence was generally poor.PMID:35833913 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD012269.pub2
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - July 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Joseph Kwan Melanie Hafdi Lorraine L W Chiang Phyo K Myint Li Siang Wong Terry J Quinn Source Type: research
Duplex ultrasound for diagnosing symptomatic carotid stenosis in the extracranial segments
CONCLUSIONS: This review provides evidence that the diagnostic accuracy of DUS is high, especially at discriminating between the presence or absence of significant carotid artery stenosis (< 50% or 50% to 99%). This evidence, plus its less invasive nature, supports the early use of DUS for the detection of carotid artery stenosis. The accuracy for 70% to 99% carotid artery stenosis and occlusion is high. Clinicians should exercise caution when using DUS as the single preoperative diagnostic method, and the limitations should be considered. There was little evidence of the accuracy of DUS when compared with CTA or MRA. T...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - July 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nicolle Cassola Jose Cc Baptista-Silva Luis Cu Nakano Carolina Dq Flumignan Ricardo Sesso Vladimir Vasconcelos Nelson Carvas Junior Ronald Lg Flumignan Source Type: research
