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Quantifying COPD as a risk factor for cardiac disease in a primary prevention cohort
Conclusions In a large real-world population without CVD, people with physician-diagnosed COPD were 25% more likely to have a major CVD event, after adjustment for CVD risk and other factors. This rate is comparable to the rate in people with diabetes and calls for more aggressive CVD primary prevention in the COPD population.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - August 31, 2023 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Maclagan, L. C., Croxford, R., Chu, A., Sin, D. D., Udell, J. A., Lee, D. S., Austin, P. C., Gershon, A. S. Tags: COPD and smoking Original Articles: Tuberculosis and clinical trials Source Type: research

Trend over time on knowledge of the health effects of cigarette smoking and smokeless tobacco use in Bangladesh: Findings from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Bangladesh Surveys
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that increasing efforts of awareness policy interventions is having a positive effect on tobacco-related knowledge in Bangladesh. These policy initiatives should be continued to identify optimal methods to facilitate behaviour change and improve cessation of smoking and ST use.PMID:37565295 | DOI:10.1111/dar.13735
Source: Cancer Control - August 11, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Eva Naznin Johnson George Pete Driezen Kerrin Palazzi Olivia Wynne Nigar Nargis Geoffrey T Fong Billie Bonevski Source Type: research

E-223 Improved time to diagnosis with portable MR imaging
ConclusionPortable MRI is a promising innovation with the aim to expand patient access and improve diagnostic times so that critical and potential lifesaving imaging diagnoses can be promptly treated with the urgency that is required. While initial analysis provides evidence that portable MRI has advantages over conventional MRI systems including workflow efficiency and improved patient imaging times, this will need to be compared to the unfortunate negative drawbacks of lessened image resolution and limited imaging sequences that come with the convenience of portable MRI systems. If the hypothesis is further corroborated,...
Source: Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery - July 30, 2023 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Richardson, O., Richardson, A., Mukherjee, S. Tags: SNIS 20th annual meeting electronic poster abstracts Source Type: research

Stroke in a child with pulmonary tuberculosis and pleural effusion —An important clue for the diagnosis of disseminated central nervous system tuberculosis
AbstractCentral nervous system tuberculosis (CNS-TB) is one of the most devastating and life-threatening conditions having high mortality and morbidity. Here, we report a 12-year-old child with pulmonary tuberculosis and pleural effusion presenting with ischemic stroke as an important manifestation of central nervous system tuberculosis.
Source: Clinical Case Reports - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nagendra Chaudhary, Binod Kumar Gupta, Astha Poudel, Manish Kafle, Neeva Singh, Hanshmani Prasad Chaudhary Tags: CASE REPORT Source Type: research

Pediatric Moyamoya Syndrome Secondary to Tuberculous Meningitis: A Case Report
We report the case of a female patient who initially presented at 6 years of age with TBM and developed moyamoya syndrome requiring revascularization surgery. Results She was found to have basilar meningeal enhancement and right basal ganglia infarcts. She was treated with 12 months of antituberculosis therapy and 12 months of enoxaparin and maintained on daily aspirin indefinitely. However, she developed recurrent headaches and transient ischemic attacks and was found to have progressive bilateral moyamoya arteriopathy. At age 11 years, she underwent bilateral pial synangiosis for the treatment of her moyamoya syndrome. ...
Source: Neurology Clinical Practice - January 18, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Kappel, A. D., Lehman, L. L., Northam, W. T., See, A. P., Smith, E. R. Tags: Clinical/Scientific Note Source Type: research

The rare manifestations in tuberculous meningoencephalitis: a review of available literature
Conclusion: Understanding and timely improvement of corresponding examinations and targeted treatment will help improve the prognosis of patients.PMID:36598144 | DOI:10.1080/07853890.2022.2164348
Source: Annals of Medicine - January 4, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Rong Li He Yun Liu Quanhui Tan Lan Wang Source Type: research

The final puff: Can New Zealand quit smoking for good?
Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers come into the emergency ward every night, struggling to breathe with their damaged lungs. Later, as an infectious disease specialist, she saw how smoking exacerbated illness in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She would tell them: “The best thing you can do to promote your health, other than take the pills, is to quit smoking.” Verrall is still urging citizens to give up cigarettes—no longer just one by one, but by the thousands. As New...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

Telemedicine During COVID-19 Pandemic: Lesson Learned from the Lazio Region Infectious Diseases and Emergency Department Network
We describe the teleconsultation (TC) model in the Lazio Region. It uses a hub-and-spoke network system on geographic regional basis using a web based digital platform, termed ADVICE with the aim to connect regional Emergency Departments (EDs) and Infectious Diseases (ID) acute and critical care settings for patients with acute ID syndrome. Between January 2020 and June 2021, the ADVICE platform received 18.686 TCs: of them, 10838 requests (58%) were for ID TCs in 7996 patients, followed by 2555(13%) requests for trauma, 2286(12%) for acute complex syndrome and 1681 (8%) for Stroke TCs. Three quarter of ID TCs were request...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - December 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research

Channa striatus in inflammatory conditions: A systematic review
Channa striatus (CS), or snakehead murrel, is an obligate air-breathing freshwater fish. Besides its wound healing properties, CS has also been reported to exhibit anti-inflammatory effects in multiple studies. While there are anti-inflammatory medications such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), their long-term use is associated with an increased risk of peptic ulcers, acute renal failure, stroke, and myocardial infarction. Thus, it is essential to look at natural methods such as CS extract. While there is an abundant number of investigative studies on the inflammatory properties of CS, the quality of these ...
Source: Frontiers in Pharmacology - December 5, 2022 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

Chronic non-communicable diseases: Hainan prospective cohort study
Purpose The Hainan Cohort was established to investigate the incidence, morbidity and mortality of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors in the community population. Participants The baseline investigation of the Hainan Cohort study was initiated in five main areas of Hainan, China, from June 2018 to October 2020. A multistage cluster random-sampling method was used to obtain samples from the general population. Baseline assessments included a questionnaire survey, physical examination, blood and urine sample collection, and laboratory measurements, and outdoor environmental data were obtained. Findings to dat...
Source: BMJ Open - November 18, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Gu, X., Lin, L., Zhao, C., Wu, L., Liu, Y., He, L., Lin, G., Lin, Y., Zhang, F. Tags: Open access, Public health Source Type: research

Prognostic factors for mortality, intensive care unit and hospital admission due to SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies in Europe
Background As mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is strongly age-dependent, we aimed to identify population subgroups at an elevated risk for adverse outcomes from COVID-19 using age-/gender-adjusted data from European cohort studies with the aim to identify populations that could potentially benefit from booster vaccinations. Methods We performed a systematic literature review and meta-analysis to investigate the role of underlying medical conditions as prognostic factors for adverse outcomes due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), including death, hospitalisation, intensive c...
Source: European Respiratory Review - November 2, 2022 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Vardavas, C. I., Mathioudakis, A. G., Nikitara, K., Stamatelopoulos, K., Georgiopoulos, G., Phalkey, R., Leonardi-Bee, J., Fernandez, E., Carnicer-Pont, D., Vestbo, J., Semenza, J. C., Deogan, C., Suk, J. E., Kramarz, P., Lamb, F., Penttinen, P. Tags: Respiratory infections and tuberculosis Reviews Source Type: research

Evaluating the performance of the PRISMA-7 frailty criteria for predicting disability and death after acute ischemic stroke
Stroke is the second cause of death and disability in the world, affecting close to 14 million people globally per year and being responsible for around 120 million disability-adjusted life years.1,2 More deaths occur worldwide because of stroke than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined.3 Therefore, being able to identify which individuals with stroke are at highest risk of poor function and mortality is critically important given the need for weighing the risks, costs, and benefits of interventions during various shared decision-making processes.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - October 22, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Luana Aparecida Miranda, Gustavo Jos é Luvizutto, Blossom Christa Maree Stephan, Juli Thomaz de Souza, Taís Regina da Silva, Fernanda Cristina Winckler, Natalia Cristina Ferreira, Leticia Claudia de Oliveira Antunes, Pedro Augusto Cândido Bessornia, Si Source Type: research

Role of Serum Homocysteine and Outcome in Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury
Conclusion The study concluded that patients who had suffered from a TBI had significantly higher serum Hcy levels. Furthermore, the study highlighted that the patients with the worst outcomes had more severe hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) than those with better outcomes. Moreover, patients with low GOS scores were more likely to have HHcy.PMID:36237797 | PMC:PMC9548089 | DOI:10.7759/cureus.28968
Source: Cancer Control - October 14, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Humayoun Amini Hewad Hewadmal Sayed Farhad Rasuli Chowdhury S Shahriar Abdul Fattah Hariharan Kavanoor Sridhar Marjan Khan Sadaf Bhat Abdul Subhan Talpur Laila Tul Qadar Source Type: research