CME-candidate

Low infliximab start dose appears effective in psoriatic arthritis

Posted on: 26/06/2014 - 18:15

Median starting doses of infliximab in psoriatic arthritis patients in two nationwide registries were below the recommended dose of 5 mg/kg every 8 weeks, but outcomes suggest that a low starting...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Physically demanding jobs link to worse ankylosing spondylitis progression

Posted on: 25/06/2014 - 22:40

PARIS – Patients with ankylosing spondylitis who worked at more physically-demanding jobs showed greater radiographic progression than did patients who performed more sedentary jobs in a prospective...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Factors that lead to gout often differ in men and women

Posted on: 24/06/2014 - 22:15

PARIS – Women have different predisposing risk factors for gout than do men, who more often fit the stereotypical profile of patients with gout who consume foods that increase the risk of the...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Adding tomosynthesis improved mammography’s cancer detection

Posted on: 24/06/2014 - 21:00

Adding tomosynthesis to screening digital mammography decreases the "recall" rate by 15% while increasing the cancer detection rate by 29%, according to a report published online June 25 in...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Women benefit from CRT at shorter QRS durations

Posted on: 24/06/2014 - 20:25

Women with mild heart failure and left bundle branch block benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy at a shorter QRS duration – less than 150 milliseconds – than do men, according to a report...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Calcium and vitamin D improve metabolic profile in gestational diabetes

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 23:00

Calcium and vitamin D can improve the metabolic profile of women with gestational diabetes mellitus, according to investigators in Iran who found significant reductions in fasting glucose, serum...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Tool predicts lymphoma, death in primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 19:20

The European League Against Rheumatism Sjögren’s Syndrome Disease Activity Index measured at the time of diagnosis predicted the development of lymphoma and death in Spanish patients with severe...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Giant-cell arteritis patients face high aortic aneurysm dissection risk

Posted on: 23/06/2014 - 19:00

PARIS – The usual rule that the larger an aortic aneurysm grows the greater the risk it will undergo dissection or rupture doesn’t work in patients with giant-cell arteritis. Their aortic aneurysms...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Higher risk of death seen with oral steroids in RA interstitial lung disease

Posted on: 19/06/2014 - 18:15

The use of prednisone for 3 or more months at a time was associated with a significantly elevated risk of death in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and interstitial lung disease in a retrospective...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Intervention ups annual FOBT screening to 82%

Posted on: 16/06/2014 - 21:00

An inexpensive telephone intervention raised the rate of annual colorectal cancer screening using fecal occult blood testing to 82% in an underserved population at particular risk for poor health,...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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