University Of Calgary

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association have published a joint recommendation statement for the use of endovascular therapy and thrombolysis following stroke in patients with premorbid dementia or disability.

In a systematic review and meta-analysis, researchers found higher BMI was associated with favorable clinical outcomes in patients with cystic fibrosis, urging reconsideration of the currently recommended target BMI.

Longer travel distance to a subspecialty interstitial lung disease clinic was associated with worse clinical outcomes for patients with fibrotic ILD than those who live closer, researchers reported in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Discrepancies between functional outcome and postendovascular therapy infarct volume correlated with differences in pretreatment factors and post-treatment complications, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Patients who received enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications had increased risk for incident cardiovascular disease, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Neurology.

Vascular brain injury and cognitive reserve markers were independently associated with cognition, such that higher cognitive reserve did not reduce the adverse effects of covert vascular brain injury.

Among asymptomatic children, the prevalence of Clostridioides difficile is greatest among infants aged between 6 and 12 months, according to the results of a symptomatic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics.

The diagnostic criteria for chronic kidney disease that uses the standard estimated glomerular filtration rate threshold of 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 regardless of one’s age may lead to overdiagnosis, researchers wrote.

Healthy lifestyle behaviors could potentially reduce the risk for systemic lupus erythematosus by nearly half, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

An annual infusion of zoledronic acid can help attenuate bone loss in adults with acute spinal cord injury, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.