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DALLAS — Results presented at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting showed BMI was a better predictor of periprosthetic joint infection after total knee arthroplasty compared with measures of adipose tissue.

ATLANTA — Patients on Medicaid with systemic lupus erythematosus who underwent coronary revascularization procedures had 1.7 times higher 30-day mortality rates than those with diabetes who underwent the same procedures, according to a presenter here.

Variant frequency in the filaggrin gene was strongly associated with race among pediatric patients with atopic dermatitis.

An analysis of the associations of geographic region, beneficiary and hospital characteristics on high-intensity statin use after MI revealed that patients living in New England had 66% higher use compared those living in the West South Central region of the United States, according to findings published in JAMA Cardiology.