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Sex-sensitive and gender-sensitive medicine is a novel field that explores the impact of sex and gender on health and disease. Sex is defined by biological features such as genetic, hormonal, anatomical and physiological characteristics.[1][1] Gender is a multidimensional attribute enacted in human
Source: BMJ OncologyCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Background This study aimed to explore the impact of social activity frequency on mid- and long-term overall survival in older Chinese people. Methods The association between social activity frequency and overall survival was analysed in 28 563 subjects from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) cohorts. Results A total of 21 161 (74.1%) subjects died during the follow-up of…
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Mashup Score: 2Timing of physical activity across adulthood on later-life cognition: 30 years follow-up in the 1946 British birth cohort - 2 year(s) ago
Background To assess how timing, frequency and maintenance of being physically active, spanning over 30 years in adulthood, is associated with later-life cognitive function. Methods Participants (n=1417, 53% female) were from the prospective longitudinal cohort study, 1946 British birth cohort. Participation in leisure time physical activity was reported five times between ages 36 and 69,…
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Mashup Score: 0Log in | BMJ Best Practice - 2 year(s) ago
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Source: bestpractice.bmj.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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I first heard of him half a century ago. He is one of those people who become more articulate, more cocksure, and more formidable in debate the older they get. Continental Europeans call him Erik the Genius. Although he is highly esteemed in the United Kingdom, he impresses Americans less. I call him Professor Know-All because every time a new fact emerges in science or medicine, he has expected…
Source: The BMJCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
@EM_RESUS Yes, please trust Sam Ghali @EM_RESUS on this. Patient-reported "sense of impending doom" must be taken seriously and acted on (beginning with actively listening to the patient and understanding the context). See the cases reported in #BMJ - #BeyondScience https://t.co/H9XX8vRN6l https://t.co/W1Rk4esfQN
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Mashup Score: 2Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: recent concepts in diagnosis, mechanisms and management - 3 year(s) ago
It is estimated that half of all patients with heart failure (HF) have HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Yet this form of HF remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Differentiating HFpEF from other causes of dyspnoea may require advanced diagnostic methods, such as exercise echocardiography, invasive haemodynamics and investigations for ‘HFpEF mimickers’. While the…
Source: HeartCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Objectives To investigate whether there is an association between women’s representation as peer reviewers and editors of medical journals. Methods In this cross-sectional study, the gender of editors and peer reviewers of journals of the British Medical Journal Publishing Group (BMJ-PG) in 2020 was determined based on given names. Trends over time were analysed for the BMJ between 2009 and…
Source: BMJ OpenCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Plasma exchange is associated with a reduced risk for end-stage renal disease but an increased risk for serious infection in people with anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis, meta-analysis data show.
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Mashup Score: 2Risk of thrombocytopenia and thromboembolism after covid-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 positive testing: self-controlled case series study - 4 year(s) ago
Objective To assess the association between covid-19 vaccines and risk of thrombocytopenia and thromboembolic events in England among adults. Design Self-controlled case series study using national data on covid-19 vaccination and hospital admissions. Setting Patient level data were obtained for approximately 30 million people vaccinated in England between 1 December 2020 and 24 April 2021….
Source: The BMJCategories: Latest Headlines, Oncologists1Tweet
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Mashup Score: 0Training digitally competent clinicians - 4 year(s) ago
Inadequate training in digital skills fails students, clinicians, and patients Medical education aims to produce well rounded, knowledgeable, and compassionate doctors who are capable of listening and making critical decisions to benefit patients. Advances in technology have drastically changed the way doctors undertake their duties.1 Clinicians today use an array of evolving digital systems to…
Source: The BMJCategories: Future of Medicine, Latest HeadlinesTweet
Inclusive oncological trials and targeted treatments cannot ignore sex and gender #some4surgery #BMJ #Oncology #gender https://t.co/yDA09rLma4