Yale School Of Medicine
NKF awards Susan T. Crowley, MD, MBA, FASN, FNKF, with David M. Hume Award
EHR alerts boosted prescription of guideline-recommended heart failure therapies
WASHINGTON — A personalized alert triggered via the electronic health record during office visits resulted in more frequent prescription of guideline-directed medical therapies for patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction.
Bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma safe, effective, durable at 5 years
Patients with severe asthma experienced decreased exacerbations, hospitalizations, ED visits and corticosteroid exposure 5 years after treatment with bronchial thermoplasty, researchers reported.
Fear, medical mistrust may cause disparities in diabetes device uptake for Black youths
Black adolescents with type 1 diabetes and their parents believe fear, lack of exposure and mistrust of the medical community are some of the reasons racial disparities exist with diabetes device use, according to study findings.
Sociodemographic, structural processes mostly explain racial disparity in prostate MRI use
Sociodemographic factors and products of structural racism, such as poverty and residential segregation, explained most of the racial disparity observed in use of prostate MRI among older Black men and white men with prostate cancer.
High levels of depressive symptoms tied to incident HF in Black women, not men
High depressive symptoms were associated with risk for incident HF among Black women, but not Black men, according to data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Multiple interventions needed to shrink pandemic burden in underrepresented populations
Multiple interventions are needed to combat the disproportionate burden from pandemics, like COVID-19, on underrepresented populations, according to a prospective longitudinal study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Risk stratification, molecular testing among recent advances in thyroid cancer treatment
During the past 2 decades, Endocrine Today has reported on the latest developments in treating thyroid cancer. For its 20th year, the publication is taking a look back.
Use of mental health services stagnant despite rise in suicide attempts among US adults
Despite an increase in the rate of suicide attempts, use of mental health services by those who attempted suicide within a year of doing so has not increased, per a nationwide cross-sectional study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Lockdown restrictions tied to decreased physical activity in those with pacemakers, ICDs
Pandemic lockdown restrictions in New York City and Minneapolis/St. Paul were associated with a decrease in physical activity among patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators, researchers reported.