Chronic Disease

1. In this retrospective quality improvement cohort study from the United States, a multidisciplinary approach was linked with increased rates of peritoneal dialysis initiation...

1. In this population-based cohort study, consumption of total, sugar-, and artificially-sweetened soft drinks was linked with an increased risk of all-cause mortality.2. The...

Intensive glycemic control has been shown to reduce the risk of retinopathy and nephropathy in the setting of type 1 diabetes. While prior studies...

Most estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancers can be classified as luminal A or luminal B subtype. It has been estimated that 1 in 4...

1. In patients with primary varicose veins followed for 5 years after treatment, those randomized to receive laser ablation or surgery reported greater improvements...

1. Patients hospitalized with acute heart failure (AHF) randomized to receive the vasodilator serelaxin experienced similar occurrence of death from heart failure at 180...

1. For previously untreated HIV-1 patients in Cameroon, treatment with dolutegravir was noninferior to low dose efavirenz at lowering viral load over a period...

Diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS) is challenging, in part because imaging findings in MS partially overlap with MS mimics such as vascular disease, migraine, and...

Childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) typically has a more severe course than adult-onset IBD, and has been found to be associated with psychiatric morbidity...

1. Approximately a quarter of multiple myeloma patients that had refractory disease despite treatment with a proteasome inhibitor, immunomodulatory agent, and daratumumab experienced treatment...