Internal Medicine Alert – December 15, 2016
December 15, 2016
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Is Anxiety a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease?
Anxiety disorders are associated with an elevated risk of a range of different cardiovascular events including stroke, coronary heart disease, heart failure, and cardiovascular deaths, but it is unclear whether these disorders are causal in nature.
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What Influences ICU Admission?
High ICU utilization hospitals were more likely to use invasive procedures and incurred higher costs than low ICU utilization hospitals with no difference in mortality.
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Is Yoga Effective for Treating Asthma?
Although the data on yoga in asthma are only of moderate quality, they suggest that yoga may improve quality of life and asthma symptoms.
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Bezlotoxumab Injection (Zinplava)
Bezlotoxumab neutralizes the effect of toxin B and reduces the rate of recurrence of C. difficile infection.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: connecting asthma to obesity; finding the right treatment for uncomplicated gastroesophageal reflux disease; and better blood pressure control.
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An Alternating QRS with AV Block?
There is no 12-lead ECG on this patient, which means that our assessment of QRS morphology is limited to this single right-sided MCL-1 monitoring lead.