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Significant Improvements in Adherence, Blood Pressure, and LDL Cholesterol with Polypill
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: A four-drug polypill significantly improves adherence, and reduces blood pressure and LDL cholesterol in patients with existing...
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Salt Targets Could Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Burden and Health Expenditures
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: South African salt targets of less than 5 g/day could reduce cardiovascular mortality by 11% and significantly decrease out-of-...
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Salt targets could reduce cardiovascular disease burden and health expenditures
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: South African salt targets of less than 5 g/day could reduce cardiovascular mortality by 11% and significantly decrease out-of-...
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No benefits to helmet therapy for positional skull deformation
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- Bianca Nogrady
Key clinical point: Watchful waiting may be best for infant positional skull deformity. Major finding: About a quarter (26%) of helmet-treated...
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Natalizumab reduced biomarkers of intrathecal inflammation in progressive MS
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- Bianca Nogrady
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Stress cardiac magnetic resonance feasible and prognostic in obese patients
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Obese individuals with no evidence of inducible ischemia or LGE in stress CMR are at significantly lower annualized risk of MACE (0...
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Validated patient-reported outcomes needed for inflammatory bowel disease
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- Bianca Nogrady
Key clinical point: Clinicians should begin to develop and use validated, self-administered questionnaires with items that are generated solely by...
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Drop in circumcision rates prompts call for Medicaid coverage
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Neonatal circumcision rates declined from 83% in 1960-1969 to 77% in 2010.Data source: Review including analysis of National Health...
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Adult dosing regimen of pegaspargase achieves high remission rates
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: A dosing regimen of up to six intravenous 2,000 IU/m2-doses, given at 4-week intervals, achieved a 96% remission rate in adults...
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Cell-cycle inhibitor entinostat appeared to block azacitidine action
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: The addition of cell-cycle inhibitor entinostat to a 10-day schedule of treatment with azacitidine led to a lower overall...
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No improvements in left ventricular function with metformin after myocardial infarction
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Treatment with metformin after STEMI had no significant impact on LVEF or on the incidence of major cardiac events in nondiabetic...
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Aleglitazar failed to reduce cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Aleglitazar failed to improve cardiovascular outcomes when compared with placebo and was linked with an increased risk of adverse...
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Persistent lymphocytosis with ibrutinib does not indicate early relapse
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who experienced persistent lymphocytosis associated with ibrutinib treatment did not...
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Cell-penetrating domain improves therapeutic cancer vaccine potency
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- Bianca Nogrady
Major finding: A cell-penetrating, domain-fused melanoma antigen showed more rapid and efficient penetration of the dendritic cell membrane than...
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First Estimates of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in Children
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- Bianca Nogrady