VTE, sepsis risk increased among COVID-19 patients with cancer

Cancer patients had significantly lower hemoglobin levels, platelet counts, and red and white blood cell counts.

Mortality burden of dementia may be greater than estimated

The mortality burden of dementia may be highest among non-Hispanic black people, compared with people of other races.

Impaired senses, especially smell, linked to dementia

Even mild levels of multisensory impairment are associated with accelerated cognitive aging.

Study: Immune checkpoint inhibitors don’t increase risk of death in cancer patients with COVID-19

The mortality rate was 8% among patients who received immune checkpoint inhibitors, which is comparable with the overall mortality rate among cancer patients with COVID-19.

Updated EULAR/ACR criteria identify more lupus patients

Approximately 17% of cases of undifferentiated connective tissue disease could be challenged using new criteria.

Hypertension medication adjustment less likely with polypill

Post hoc analysis of TRIUMPH trial reports clinicians were less likely to adjust hypertension therapy with low-dose fixed-drug combination treatment than with usual care.

Patients usually understand and agree with physicians’ notes

Those in worse health were more likely to say something important was missing from them.

Subcutaneous hep A vaccination as effective as intramuscular for bleeding disorder patients

Subcutaneous hepatitis A vaccination is as effective and may be safer for patients with bleeding disorders.

EBV may worsen immune checkpoint inhibitor–induced colitis

All EBV-positive patients had colon perforation, compared with no EBV-negative patients.

RA raises cardiac risk even without CAD

“RA may have a potential impact for precipitating cardiovascular events beyond CAD and, even more importantly ... RA seems to exacerbate the clinical risk of cardiovascular events in the presence of CAD.”

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