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MUCH Ado About WUCH
In a long-term, fixed-drug therapy of hypertension study, masked uncontrolled and white coat uncontrolled hypertension exhibited poor reproducibility over four years.
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How Does Weight Loss Affect Lower Urinary Symptoms and Incontinence in Obese and Overweight Women?
Weight loss interventions were associated with improvements in urinary incontinence in overweight and obese women at one to 2.9 years.
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Disability After Minor Stroke and TIA — Secondary Analysis of the POINT Trial
Although the data from this analysis suggest disability might be less with dual antiplatelet therapy, differences between the groups were small, did not show robust findings, and did not reach statistical significance in most of the analyses.
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Coronary CT Angiography to Identify Plaque Stabilization
Researchers identified subjects with no known coronary artery disease drawn from a large international, multicenter registry of coronary CT angiography. The authors demonstrated those with a high density of calcium plaques experienced the fewest events, suggesting high-density calcium plaques are stable.
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Public Health Interventions to Reduce COVID-19 Spread
After studying the association of public health interventions with the epidemiological features of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, the authors found nonpharmaceutical interventions may be associated with better outbreak control.
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Tucatinib Tablets (Tukysa)
Tucatinib should be prescribed in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine to treat adults with advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.
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For Knee Arthritis: Physical Therapy or the Needle?
In a small, randomized, controlled trial of patients with knee osteoarthritis, those who received physical therapy reported less pain and functional disability at one year than those who received one or more glucocorticoid intra-articular injections. -
Empiric Anti-MRSA Therapy in Pneumonia May Not Always Be a Good Idea
In a retrospective cohort study, empiric anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus treatment was not associated with a reduction in mortality in any subgroup of patients studied and appeared to cause harm in many.
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Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Acute Pericarditis?
The lack of significant Q waves, lack of any reciprocal ST depression, and the prominent J-point notching in the figure all suggest this may not be an acute infarction.