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Childhood Gluten Intake and Risk of Celiac Disease
Data analysis from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study, to evaluate risk of celiac autoimmunity and celiac disease in children who screened positive for at-risk human leukocyte antigen genotypes, demonstrated increased risk for both outcomes in genetically predisposed children correlating with increasing quantities of daily gluten intake during the first five years of life.
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Eat Nuts, Gain Less Weight
A long-term, large-scale prospective study reveals an association between increased consumption of nuts, decreased weight gain, and decreased risk of obesity.
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Taming of the Flu: An Update on What's New
The 2019-2020 flu season is already among us, and it is imperative that those healthcare practitioners on the frontline, particularly in our nation’s emergency departments, have current knowledge of prevention and treatment strategies.
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Proposed Federal Rules Could Increase Nation’s Organ Supply
Patients who need kidney transplants are front and center under the CMS proposal.
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Does a Repeat Course of IVIg Help in Severe Guillain-Barré Syndrome?
In an open-label, non-randomized clinical trial using a second course of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) to treat patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome, no benefit was observed. A single course of 2 g/kg of IVIg should be administered. No additional treatment is helpful.
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Stereotactic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
In this comprehensive review of studies comparing treatments for cerebral cavernous malformations, there were no randomized or blinded outcome trials, and the most effective treatment remains uncertain.
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Submentalis REM Sleep Muscle Activity: A Potential Biomarker for Synucleinopathy
Objective findings during polysomnography (REM sleep without atonia), as diagnosed with submentalis EMG recordings, may be a biomarker for synucleinopathies, such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy.
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Fluctuating Cognition: An Often-Neglected Feature of Lewy Body Dementias
Clinical identification of fluctuating cognition is challenging. A better understanding of potential etiological mechanisms can allow for optimization of clinical assessment tools and targeted therapeutic approaches.
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Neuropathology and Dementia in Football Players With CTE
The authors of a cross-sectional study involving analysis of data from the ongoing Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) study found that dementia is likely a result of neuropathologic changes associated with repetitive head injury as well as non-head trauma-associated vascular pathologic changes in patients with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
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Significance of Brain Microbleeds After Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic microbleeds are common in patients with any severity of traumatic brain injury and may be a useful biomarker to predict clinical outcomes.