Almost 10% of patients undergoing bariatric surgery to combat obesity had symptoms of an alcohol use disorder 2 years after surgery, a large prospective cohort study showed.
The prevalence of alcohol use disorders increased from 7.6% before surgery to 9.6% 2 years after the procedure, as reported online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Have surgery, lose weight, become alcoholic!
The 6-minute walk test may improve cardiovascular risk prediction in patients with stable coronary heart disease, researchers found.
Even after adjustment for traditional cardiovascular risk factors and measures of cardiac disease severity, each standard deviation decrease in walk distance was associated with a 30% greater risk of MI, heart failure, or death (HR 1.30, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.53), according to Alexis Beatty, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues.
New underwriting requirement for applicants with known heart disease. Take a walk.
In a large cohort study, patients with only CKD had a significantly higher rate of myocardial infarction (MI) than those who only had diabetes (5.4 versus 6.9 per 1,000 person-years, P
Those who’d already had an MI had the highest overall rate of MI (18.5 per 1,000 person-years), they reported online in The Lancet.
Poorer performance on Trail Making Test-A (TMT-A) almost doubled the risk of death during a median poststroke follow-up of 2.5 years (HR 1.88 per SD, 95% CI 1.31 to 2.71, P=0.001). Patients who performed the worst on the TMT-A had almost a three times greater mortality risk compared with patients who had the best scores on the test prior to stroke (HR 2.90 per SD, 95% CI 1.24 to 6.77, P=0.014).
Any life insurance companies out there using this test?
From 1988 to 2008, the prevalence of NAFLD rose from 3.6% to 9.9% among children ages 12 to 18…
via Medical News: Fatty Liver Disease on Rise in Teens – in Meeting Coverage, DDW from MedPage Today.
Question: What is the prevalence of NAFLD in children ages 12-18?
Over 9 years, those who had diabetes had significantly worse cognitive decline on two separate tests compared with those who didn’t have the disease (P=0.008 and P=0.001), Kristine Yaffe, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues reported online in the Archives of Neurology.
Causality was called very likely due to flavocoxid in three patients and possibly due to the agent in one patient, as that case was complicated by exposure to several other agents that may have caused the injury, including pregabalin (Lyrica), duloxetine (Cymbalta), and tizanidine (Zanaflex).
More than 1.3 million foreign-born residents of the U.S. are living with hepatitis B (HBV), according to a new estimate.
This week’s topics include the dangers of mail order poultry, an updated hormone therapy review in women, kidney disease and tight blood sugar control in those with diabetes, and thyroid dysfunction and heart disease.
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