Personal Satisfaction

Higher levels of life satisfaction and well-being may portend lower rates of CVD due to the association between inflammatory markers and CV risk factors observed among individuals reporting lower well-being, researchers reported.

Adults with higher aging satisfaction were more likely to have improved health and well-being later in life, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

A recent survey showed that older Asian American adults in California reported lower life satisfaction and received less social and emotional support than older adults from other populations.

Latuda use was associated with statistically significant improvements on individual quality-of-life items compared with placebo among patients with bipolar depression.

The presence of and search for meaning in life may impact health and well-being, with a significant difference in this association for adults younger than vs. older than age 60 years, according to cross-sectional data published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

A cohort of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture prescribed abaloparatide outside of a clinical trial setting reported high treatment satisfaction, with 94% of participants adhering to daily injections as prescribed, according to study data presented at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research annual meeting.

In a study of patients with no or mild osteoarthritis who underwent arthroscopic partial meniscectomy, investigators found no clinically meaningful differences in patient satisfaction or clinical outcomes between patients who had traumatic vs. degenerative tears.

In August, many Europeans take extended vacations. Businesses and government offices close, and millions travel to sunny destinations in the Mediterranean or abroad. For many Americans, especially orthopedic surgeons, our European colleagues improve their work-life balance as we justify our brief vacations as all that can be taken given work commitments and revenue lost.

Compared with business leaders, doctors are in a difficult spot when it comes to how success is measured. In business, making the right decision at least part of the time can lead to a profitable enterprise. If you’re right more than half the time, you’re often considered a Bill Gates type of genius. But if you’re a doctor, you can lose your license by being right only half the time. Clinically and surgically speaking, that’s poor medicine. This partly explains why doctors tend to be risk-averse and conservative in decision making.

ORLANDO — Patients with lupus are not being provided with enough information at physician’s appointments or at diagnosis, leaving them to seek help from health educators, according to a poster presented at the 2019 Rheumatology Nurses Society Annual Conference.