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Inflammatory markers in patients with hypertension
Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2023 May 2;84(5):1-8. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2022.0531. Epub 2023 May 22.ABSTRACTHypertension is a chronic disease with high levels of morbidity and disability. Elevated blood pressure can lead to many complications and is the main risk factor for stroke, heart failure and nephropathy. Factors associated with hypertension and inflammatory response differ from those associated with vascular inflammation. The immune system plays a vital role in the pathophysiology of hypertension. Inflammation is particularly relevant in the progression of cardiovascular diseases, which has led to extensive research on infl...
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - May 26, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Chen Yihui Gong Yanfeng Source Type: research

How do we ensure that more patients receive stroke thrombectomy in the UK?
Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2023 May 2;84(5):1-4. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2023.0111. Epub 2023 May 22.ABSTRACTStroke is a major cause of death in the UK. Mechanical thrombectomy is the most effective treatment for large vessel ischaemic strokes. Despite this, very few patients in the UK receive mechanical thrombectomy. This editorial explores the main barriers to mechanical thrombectomy use and mechanisms to improve uptake.PMID:37235673 | DOI:10.12968/hmed.2023.0111
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - May 26, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Richard J Jabbour Helen Routledge Nick Curzen Source Type: research

When does life end? New organ donation strategy fuels debate
On a chilly holiday Monday in January 2020, a medical milestone passed largely unnoticed. In a New York City operating room, surgeons gently removed the heart from a 43-year-old man who had died and shuttled it steps away to a patient in desperate need of a new one. More than 3500 people in the United States receive a new heart each year. But this case was different—the first of its kind in the country. “It took us 6 months to prepare,” says Nader Moazami, surgical head of heart transplantation at New York University (NYU) Langone Health, where the operation took place. The run-up included oversight from an ethi...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 11, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

The 3rd Beijing Forum of Evidence-Based Medicine and 2023 Cochrane China Network Symposium successfully held
Cochrane China recently hosted a virtual event for the evidence-based medicine community that brought together many of its partners, local expertise, and international speakers. Here the team provides an overview of who was involved and what was covered at the event. The3rd Beijing forum of evidence-based medicine and Cochrane China Network Symposium was successfully held virtually on January 15th, 2023. The host of this conference wereCochrane China Network and Beijing GRADE Center. The organizers are Centre for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, affiliate of the Cochrane China Ne...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - February 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news

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

Stroke thrombolysis in a 97-year-old woman with COVID-19 pneumonia
Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2022 Nov 2;83(11):1-3. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2022.0188. Epub 2022 Nov 8.NO ABSTRACTPMID:36454067 | DOI:10.12968/hmed.2022.0188
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - December 1, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Imaad A Khan Saad Ahmed Joseph Ngeh Source Type: research

Transient unilateral weakness: is it a transient ischaemic attack?
This article highlights the diagnostic challenges in transient ischaemic attack with relevance to unilateral weakness.PMID:36454061 | DOI:10.12968/hmed.2022.0414
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - December 1, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Charles C Southey Jonathan Birns Peter Sommerville Ajay Bhalla Source Type: research

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