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Low Tidal Volume Compliance Still Lacking in Mechanical Ventilation
Implementation of a well-established protective ventilation setting was limited in practice in the U.S. and U.K., electronic health records showed. From the records of mechanically ventilated people, median tidal volume was 7.48 mL/kg of predicted body weight in a U.K. database and 7.91 mL/kg in the U.S., both approaching the accepted upper limit of <8 […]
Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Also Help Lung Health
Omega-3 fatty acids may play a protective role in long-term lung health, according to longitudinal and Mendelian randomization analyses. Higher plasma levels of omega-3 fatty acid were associated with attenuated lung function decline in 15,063 patients with repeated measures of forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC), reported Patricia […]
PURE Healthy Diet Sees Advantage by Promoting Whole-Fat Dairy for Heart Health
By counting whole-fat dairy as a protective food, the new PURE Healthy Diet score strengthened the relationship between healthy eating and heart disease in a large study. For individuals with and without cardiovascular disease (CVD), higher intake of protective foods (i.e., PURE diet score ≥5 points out of 6) compared with lower intake (diet score […]
Catching the Optimal Amount of Z’s May Be Protective Against Long COVID
Healthy sleep behaviors before and during the pandemic may be protective against long COVID, a prospective cohort study suggested. Of nearly 2,000 women from the Nurses’ Health Study II who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection, those with the most healthy prepandemic sleep score had a 30% lower risk of developing long COVID compared with those […]
Heart Failure’s Obesity Paradox Falls Apart on Further Inspection
For the heart failure population, BMI obesity no longer appeared to hold counterintuitive protective effects after comprehensive adjustment for natriuretic peptides and other prognostic variables in a post hoc analysis of PARADIGM. Eliminating this so-called “obesity paradox,” researchers found that study participants with the highest BMIs actually had excess combined heart failure hospitalizations and cardiovascular […]
Low Testosterone Linked to Hospitalization for COVID
Normal testosterone levels in men might be protective against severe COVID-19, a retrospective cohort study suggested. Among 723 men with a mean age of 55, those who had hypogonadism had a higher risk of hospitalization for COVID-19 versus men with eugonadism (OR 2.4, 95% CI 1.4-4.4, P<0.003), reported Sandeep Dhindsa, MD, of St. Louis University […]
Starch for Cancer Prevention? It’s Not as Bananas as You Think
Resistant starch appeared to have a protective effect against non-colorectal Lynch syndrome-related cancers, according to long-term follow-up of the randomized CAPP2 trial. After up to 20 years of follow-up, 5.8% of participants randomized to resistant starch — a component of dietary fiber found in foods such as bananas, potatoes, grains, pulses, and seeds — had […]
On-Demand PrEP Surpasses Daily Use Among Chinese MSM
Event-driven HIV prevention regimens appeared to have a better protective effect, and a better trend of medication adherence, than daily regimens in a real-world setting among men who have sex with men (MSM), a researcher said. In four cities in China, MSM who opted for event-driven pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) — that is, that they only […]