Tulane University

While nearly 50.2% of medical school students are from historically underrepresented groups, only 25.6% pursue an orthopedic residency, according to the 2020 Physician Specialty Data report from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Higher frequencies of adding salt to food were associated with premature mortality and lower life expectancy, according to study findings published in the European Heart Journal.

Moderate consumption of alcohol, particularly wine, was associated with reduced risk for type 2 diabetes, but only if consumption occurred with meals, researchers reported.

Compared with traditional opioid analgesics, a multimodal non-opioid pain protocol provided equivalent or better postoperative pain control for patients who underwent primary arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, according to published results.

Certain changes to preexisting models that predict risk for cardiovascular events in the general population can help clinicians predict risk for atherosclerotic CVD in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Village doctors in rural China with basic medical training successfully treated patients with hypertension using a standard protocol and health coaching, serving as a potential model for other low-resource settings.

Use of the Envisia Genomic Classifier impacted physician decision-making for evaluation of interstitial lung disease by increasing the number of correct idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis diagnoses that were made with high confidence.

Over 20 years, CVD risk and CV risk factor prevalence was greater in Black Americans compared with white Americans, though the difference may have been mediated by social determinants of health, researchers reported.

In patients with persistent atrial fibrillation, a strategy of ablation based on MRI assessment of atrial fibrosis was not superior to pulmonary vein isolation for prevention of arrhythmia recurrence, researchers reported.

Testosterone therapy was not associated with unexpected or rapid disease progression in a cohort of men with biochemical recurrence or metastatic prostate cancer, according to study findings.