Sharp Uptick in Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Visits After ACA’s Passage
Healthcare visits for transgender-related diagnoses and gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) have been rising, researchers reported, suggesting it as an opportunity for HIV prevention. Within a commercial health plan database, the proportion of adults with a transgender-related diagnosis code increased by 30.8% each year from 2014 to 2021 (13.4 to 113.9 per 100,000 enrolled persons) for […]
Bicuspid Aortic Valves and Aortopathy Cluster Among Close Relatives
Diagnoses of bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), thoracic aortic aneurysm, and thoracic aortic dissection appeared to run in families extending beyond first-degree relatives, according to the largest pedigree-based study on the subject to date. Among probands with BAV and aortopathy in the Utah Population Database, first-degree relatives were several times more likely to share a concordant […]
Treating Early Hospitalization Blood Pressure Deemed a No-No for Patient Safety
For older people hospitalized with noncardiovascular diagnoses, intensive lowering of asymptomatic inpatient blood pressures (BPs) may constitute overtreatment and lead to harm, observational data suggested. U.S. veterans acutely treated for elevated systolic BP in the first 48 hours of hospitalization — without evidence of acute end organ damage — suffered more adverse events when counting […]