Medscape UK

• Effects of Vitamin D Monotherapy on Sarcopenia Indices in Older Adults In community-dwelling older adults aged ≥50 years, vitamin D supplementation monotherapy significantly reduced short physical performance battery (SPPB) score but had no effects on muscle mass, strength, and any other physical performance parameters.
  Medscape UK, March 18, 2022
• Diabetes Linked to a Higher Risk of Cause-specific Hospitalisation in HFrEF Patients In patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), diabetes mellitus (DM) was associated with a higher rate of hospitalisation for decompensated HF events, other cardiovascular (CV) events, and infections.
  Medscape UK, March 17, 2022
• The Wounded Healer: Conference Addresses Doctor Burnout Conference will feature the charity Doctors in Distress that uses the arts to address doctor burnout.
  Medscape UK, March 16, 2022
• PPI Use and the Risk of Pseudogout The incident use of both proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and H2 blockers, either alone or in combination, was associated with a higher risk of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition (CPPD), commonly known as 'pseudogout' compared with no use.
  Medscape UK, March 16, 2022
• Postnatal Depression and Anxiety Tied to Mental Disorders in Offspring The offspring of mothers with postnatal depression had an increased risk of anxiety at 10 years of age, whereas the offspring of mothers with postnatal anxiety had an increased risk of psychotic experiences at 12 or 13 years of age.
  Medscape UK, March 15, 2022
• New Quicker and Cheaper Diagnostic Trials for Prostate Cancer Prof Hashim Ahmed discusses his work and upcoming trial that could change the way prostate cancer is diagnosed in the UK.
  Medscape UK, March 14, 2022
• Oral Anticoagulants May Attenuate Adverse Outcomes of Frailty in AF Patients In patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), frailty was associated with adverse clinical outcomes.
  Medscape UK, March 14, 2022
• Influence of Elevated HbA1c on Postoperative Complications in Non-diabetic Individuals A higher concentration of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) (≥42 mmoL.moL-1) was associated with a higher risk of developing postoperative complications in people without diabetes, but the association was likely to be confounded by end-organ comorbidity.
  Medscape UK, March 11, 2022
• Hearing Loss in Adults Linked to Worsening Cognition Hearing loss was associated with a higher risk of incident mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and accelerated cognitive decline in cognitively healthy adults.
  Medscape UK, March 10, 2022
• Influence of Smoking on Risk of Hospitalisation for COVID-19 Vs Other Respiratory Viral Infections Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 during the first phase of the pandemic were less likely to be current smokers than those hospitalised with other respiratory viral infections in the previous year.
  Medscape UK, March 09, 2022
• On the Frontlines: Delivering Care to Refugees Fleeing Ukraine The NGO UK-Med on how it works to deliver medical and humanitarian aid to families fleeing the attacks in Ukraine.
  Medscape UK, March 08, 2022
• Depression Tied to a Higher Risk of Hospitalisation for Infections A history of depression was associated with a higher risk of hospitalisation for infections.
  Medscape UK, March 07, 2022
• Non-infectious Ocular Inflammatory Disease: Mycophenolate Vs Methotrexate Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and methotrexate (MTX) did not differ in the overall treatment success and failure at 6 months in non-infectious ocular inflammatory disease (NIOID).
  Medscape UK, March 07, 2022
• Risk of Cancer and Cancer-specific Mortality in Patients with IBS Presence of Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) did not increase the risk of overall cancer.
  Medscape UK, March 04, 2022
• Study Debunks Protective Effect of Moderate Drinking on Mortality Risk in CVD Patients Patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) who consistently drank alcohol within the recommended limit of 14 units/week did not have a lower all-cause mortality risk compared with long-term abstainers.
  Medscape UK, March 03, 2022
• Herpes Zoster Not Linked to a Higher Risk of Dementia Diagnosis Herpes zoster (HZ) infection was not associated with an increased risk of dementia diagnosis.
  Medscape UK, March 02, 2022
• Antidepressant Type and the Risk of Mortality Patients with depression who were prescribed mirtazapine had a higher risk of all-cause mortality than those who were prescribed a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), amitriptyline, or venlafaxine as a second-line antidepressant.
  Medscape UK, March 01, 2022
• COVID-19: Why Are We Ignoring Infection-Acquired Immunity? Recent studies focus renewed attention on the ongoing debate about the importance of infection-acquired immunity and the extent to which it should be taken into account in public health policy.
  Medscape UK, February 28, 2022
• Regular Use of Gastric Acid Suppressants May Increase the Risk of Gallstones Regular use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and H2-receptor antagonists (H2RAs) was associated with an increased risk of cholelithiasis.
  Medscape UK, February 28, 2022
• Frailty Is a Risk Factor for Poor Diabetic Foot Ulcer Healing and Re-hospitalisation The prevalence of frailty was higher in patients hospitalised with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) and was associated with poor wound healing and re-hospitalisation events.
  Medscape UK, February 25, 2022