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CLEVER Trial: Supervised Exercise, Stenting Beats Medical Therapy for PAD
Major Finding: The 6-month change in peak walking time was 1.2 minutes with optimal medical care alone, compared with 5.8 minutes with OMC plus...
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Purified Fish Oil Formulation Cuts Triglycerides
Major Finding: A 12-week treatment regimen of 4 g/day of a purified formulation of EPA produced a 21.5% placebo-corrected cut in triglyceride...
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Telaprevir Not Cost-Effective for All Hepatitis C Patients
Major Finding: Treatment-naive genotype 1 hepatitis C patients with the CC interleukin 28B polymorphism have sustained viral response rates of...
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Early Behavior After Head Trauma Predicts Postconcussional Syndrome
Major Finding: All or nothing behavior shortly after mild traumatic brain injury was a significant predictor for the onset of postconcussional...
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Excessive Vitamin D Intake May Elevate A Fib Risk
Major Finding: People with a vitamin D blood level above 100 ng/dL had a statistically significant 2.5-fold increased rate of atrial fibrillation...
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NASH: Boost CV Workup Before Liver Transplant
Major Finding: Despite standard screening that suggested a 6.6% rate of postsurgical cardiac events, 26% of NASH patients had a cardiac event...
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HAQ May Predict Which RA Patients Can Stop TNF-Inhibitors
Major Finding: A majority (81%) of patients in the adalimumab withdrawal group achieved DAS28 of less than 3.2, compared with 91% of those in the...
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Genotyping Guides Clopidogrel Dosing in CVD
Major Finding: The percentage of CYP2C19*2 heterozygotes with no response in platelet activity to standard clopidogrel dosing was reduced from 52...
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Ramipril Improves Walking in Claudicants in RCT
Major Finding: A 24-week regimen of ramipril resulted in an average 87% improvement in pain-free walking time, a 139% gain in maximum walking time...
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Remote Weight-Loss Program Effective Long-Term
Major Finding: At 24 months, the mean weight loss was –4.6 kg or 10.1 pounds in the remote group vs. –5.1 kg or 11.2 pounds in the in-person group...