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Preoperative osteoporosis treatment lowered the risks of osteoporosis-related complications and revision surgery in patients undergoing spinal fusion of three levels or more at 1 year, according to published results.

Physiological and mental health is worsening among late Generation X and Generation Y cohorts compared with Baby Boomers, according to an investigation published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Published results showed patients who underwent spinal fusion had a significantly lower risk of long-term postoperative opioid use if their last opioid prescription was more than 2 months prior to surgery and less than a 14-day supply.

Identification of viral type and number may aid in predicting the duration of positive pressure ventilation in critically ill infants with bronchiolitis, according to results published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Postmenopausal women consuming a high proinflammatory or hyperinsulinemic diet have an increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to data from the Women’s Health Initiative published in Diabetes Care.

This year, ACTRIMS held their sixth annual forum virtually. From Feb. 25-27, attendees logged on for presentations related to this year’s meeting theme, “The Spectrum of Multiple Sclerosis.”

Women in Appalachia are disproportionately affected by cervical cancer, according to the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.

WHO’s inaugural World Report on Hearing estimates that about one in four people — or about 2.5 billion — worldwide will have some type of hearing loss by 2050.

Use of an abridged version of the REVEAL 2.0 risk calculator, REVEAL Lite 2, provided a simplified method of mortality risk assessment for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, researchers reported in Chest.

For this issue, Cardiology Today spoke with Editorial Board Member Laxmi Mehta, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA. She is a noninvasive cardiologist and professor of medicine in the division of cardiovascular medicine at The Ohio State University. She holds the Sarah Ross Soter Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health, is the section director of preventive cardiology and women’s cardiovascular health and director of lipid clinics and is the vice chair of wellness for the department of internal medicine at Ohio State.