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Zinc Supplementation: A Risk for Copper Deficiency
Zinc deficiency is frequently misdiagnosed based on a low level without considering albumin concentration and/or an inflammatory state.
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ECG Review: Sinus Tachycardia with Tall, Peaked T Waves
If told that this patient was having new-onset chest pain we would wonder why his heart rate is so fast, and we would clearly be concerned that the prominent T wave peaking might be ischemic or a DeWinter T wave equivalent.
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Clinical Briefs
In this issue: flat basal insulin, another possible interventional fix for atrial fibrillation, and a glimmer of hope for beta-blockers in heart failure from diastolic dysfunction.
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Tedizolid Phosphate Injection and Tablets (Sivextro®)
A new oxazolidinone-class antibacterial has been approved for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections.
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Prevalence of Rest Tremor in Essential Tremor
Rest tremor is seen in patients with more advanced essential tremor, yet its prevalence varies significantly between patient groups.
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Is It Time to Purge Full-Strength Aspirin from the Outpatient Armamentarium?
The current study provides further evidence of a lack of benefit to high-dose maintenance aspirin, along with a suggestion of harm.
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Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Blood Pressure-lowering Agents in Adults with Diabetes and Kidney Disease
Although no blood pressure-lowering strategy prolonged survival in adults with diabetes and kidney disease in this meta-analysis, angiotensin-converting enzyme and angiotensin-receptor blockers, alone or in combination, were the most effective pharmacological strategies to prevent the development of end-stage renal disease.
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Convexal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Amyloid Angiopathy
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is emerging as a major cause of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in the elderly. The authors of this study undertook a careful review of all of the patients in their database over a 9-year period who had spontaneous convexal subarachnoid hemorrhage, and they performed a careful longitudinal analysis of clinical and neuroimaging data.
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Consequences of Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Young Adults
Intracerebral hemorrhage accounts for 10-20% of all strokes in North America and Europe, with an overall incidence of 25 cases per 100,000 population annually. In this study, the authors evaluated the long-term survival and recovery of 268 1-month survivors ages 16-49 years to assess the prognosis of intracerebral hemorrhage in the younger group.
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Can Dietary Intervention Delay the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease?
In a prospective study of an elderly population, moderate adherence to the MIND diet was associated with a 53% reduction in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.