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The prevalence of non-allergic asthma was elevated among successful competitive cross-country skiers compared with the general population due to their intensive training schedule, researchers reported in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.“The prevalence of asthma has not been thoroughly assessed by performance level in cross-country skiers, but one might speculate that asthma is most

The addition of tislelizumab to first-line chemotherapy extended OS among patients with advanced esophageal cancer, according to study results presented at European Society for Medical Oncology World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer.The combination conferred a significant survival benefit regardless of PD-L1 status, results of the randomized phase 3 RATIONALE 306 study showed.

Patients who began taking or who switched biologics for severe asthma consistently experienced meaningfully reduced exacerbations, according to a real-world analysis published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. As a result, individual approaches to treatment could improve outcomes, the researchers continued.

The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network Board of Directors has unanimously voted to remove the race coefficient from eGFR equations.Several organizations have called for the removal of the race coefficient because it puts Black patients on the transplant list at a disadvantage. Following the vote by its board, the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) will be implementing a

Hospitalized adults with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk for future cardiovascular events with a dramatic decline in HbA1c coupled with long-term high glucose levels as measured by skin autofluorescence, according to study data. “Skin autofluorescence may help to define priorities in uncontrolled type 2 diabetes,” Vincent Rigalleau, MD, PhD, head of the diabetology unit, department

While surgeons should keep in mind the development of future antimicrobial resistance, results showed extended oral antibiotic prophylaxis is a cost-effective option for reducing prosthetic joint infection after total joint arthroplasty.Researchers used a break-even economic model to calculate the absolute risk reduction (ARR) in infection rate necessary for extended oral antibiotic prophylaxis

In children with epilepsy who discontinue anti-seizure medications, the risk for seizure relapse was significantly associated with younger age at diagnosis, according to a study published in Epilepsy & Behavior. “Epilepsy is an extremely heterogeneous disorder. The clinical characteristics, etiology, radiological findings, the severity of disease and treatment vary from patient to

In Canada, the poorest residents were 3.8 times more likely to die of opioid-related causes than the country’s richest residents, a study published in Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada showed. Wasem Alsabbagh, PhD, assistant professor in the school of pharmacy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, and colleagues sought to examine the connection between

LONDON — Noninvasive testing may predict clinically significant portal hypertension and other outcomes in patients after hepatitis C virus cure, according to research presented at the International Liver Congress.

In patients with early psoriatic arthritis who are naïve to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, swollen joints are a better predictor of synovitis than tender joints, according to data published in Rheumatology Advances in Practice.