Neurology

Wellbeing is considered a measurable and modifiable community attribute that study authors show is correlated with CV outcomes.

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Higher scores on a healthy lifestyle index were associated with significantly reduced risk of incident CVD among women aged 50-79 years with BMI between 18.5 and 25.0.

ENDO 2023. In older men with hypogonadism and CVD, there was no difference in incident CVD between those taking testosterone and those taking placebo.

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ENDO 2023: Treatment with bempedoic acid was found comparable to statin therapy in an analysis of the CLEAR Outcomes trial based on CTT Collaboration methodology.

Proposed indications for the investigational factor XIa inhibitor are: stroke prevention after acute ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischemic attack; recent acute coronary syndrome; and atrial fibrillation.

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Results also showed that prediabetes is associated with dementia risk but this risk was explained by the subsequent development of diabetes.

A Feinberg School of Medicine physiatrist with long experience assessing long COVID talks specifically about common neurologic sequelae of the infection.

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Symptoms of long COVID were apparent by the summer of 2020, said physiatrist Dr Leslie Rydberg, coauthor of new consensus guidelines on management of neurologic sequelae.

Menstrual migraine is often described as more disabling than non-menstrual migraine. Get an overview and test your knowledge, here.

Bayer's investigational FXIa inhibitor is currently being studied in a large-scale phase 3 development program expected to enroll more than 27 000 participants.

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In a unique pharmacodynamic study, nalmefene demonstrated rapid reversal of respiratory depression from the synthetic opioid remifentanil and sustained duration of action.

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A nationally recognized obesity expert discusses mental health in women with obesity.

The findings contradict published clinical guidelines that warn against use of estrogen-containing birth control by women who have migraine with aura.

Statin therapy initiated within 1 year of diagnosis of atrial fibrillation reduced the risk of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism by nearly 20%.

Findings also showed that between 1990 and 2019, the global number of ischemic stroke deaths rose from 2 million to 3 million.

Scott Laker, MD, vice president of the AAPM&R, offers 3 thoughts on what primary care clinicians should think of when they think about PM&R.

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Results showed that 37% of adults feel more anxious now than they did 1 year ago.

Brexpiprazole, an atypical antipsychotic, is the first and only medication approved to treat AD-associated agitation, reported in almost half of people with the disease.