Heart rate monitoring and atrial fibrillation detection had the strongest supporting evidence, but investigators found limited evidence for broader outpatient self-monitoring applications.
A review of cardiogenic shock studies suggests serial lactate measurements provide more prognostic information than isolated values and may better reflect treatment response.
Acidic gum beat sugar-free at cranking out nitric oxide from beetroot juice — exactly backward from what test-tube studies predicted. Also this week: a sleep gene that ignores amyloid, and jackfruit sap moonlighting as a bone-building drug delivery system.
Longer initial prescriptions, use of multiple benzodiazepines, and long-acting agents were associated with delayed discontinuation in a retrospective population-based cohort study.
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Review of 88 studies found AI systems achieved high accuracy for identifying abnormal voices, but performance declined among higher-level laryngeal disorder classifications.
In a small open-label randomized trial, 2 platelet-rich plasma injections were associated with greater 6-month improvements in pain and function than corticosteroid injection or oral aceclofenac among patients awaiting knee arthroplasty.
An interpretable machine-learning model classified angiographic coronary artery disease in patients referred for coronary angiography, but high disease prevalence and unclear inflammatory signals limited clinical interpretation.
Genetically predicted triglyceride levels were associated with higher odds of psoriasis, while genetically predicted total fatty acid levels were not, in a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis.