Critical Care News

Sotagliflozin increased the number of days alive and out of the hospital compared with placebo among patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk for intermittent hospitalization due to worsening heart failure, data show.

COVID-19 infection correlated with cognitive and behavioral changes within 2 months of hospital discharge, according to findings from a small study presented during the 7th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology.

Health care providers should perform diagnostic tests to determine the cause of a first stroke within 48 hours of symptom onset, according to an updated American Heart Association and American Stroke Association Clinical Practice Guideline.

Thirty-five percent of adults in the United States who were surveyed said they would consider leaving their primary care physician for qualified physicians providing on-demand telehealth services.

Individuals with a history of a neurological disorder prior to COVID-19 infection experienced an increased likelihood of acute care hospital re-encounters at both 30 days and 4 months, according to findings published in GeroScience.

A prospective study of community-dwelling older adults demonstrated an independent relationship between silent myocardial infarction and subsequent ischemic stroke.

Patients with chronic traumatic brain injury demonstrated “significantly different” fecal microbiome structures compared with controls, according to findings from a two-site trial published in Journal of Neurotrauma.

Comorbid COVID-19 occurred frequently among patients with ischemic stroke in 2020, especially in Black and Hispanic populations, according to results of a retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

County-level stroke mortality occurring outside a stroke unit correlated primarily with demographics and health care and environmental factors, according to results from a retrospective, cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

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