Among patients receiving inpatient rehabilitation for acute stroke, levodopa added to standardized rehabilitation significantly improves function at 3 months compared with placebo plus standardized rehabilitation.
Canagliflozin is associated with improved cardiovascular mortality in frail patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
In adult patients with subclinical hypothyroidism with a thyrotropin level between 5 mIU/L and 10 mIU/L, levothyroxine treatment was associated with a reduced risk of adverse renal outcomes when compared with no treatment.
A strategy using the combined measurement of the biomarkers glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) has 100% sensitivity and 100% negative predictive value for ruling out intracranial injury in patients with mild traumatic brain injury.
Use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate is associated with a greater relative risk of meningioma diagnosis.
Immigrants to Canada are more likely to develop incident adverse kidney outcomes compared to non-immigrants.
Which one of the following statements regarding the use of Factor Xa inhibitors, as compared to vitamin K antagonists, in atrial fibrillation patients on dialysis is false?
Candesartan is effective for prevention of episodic and chronic migraines.
The use of Sodium Glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Type 2 Diabetes is associated with reduction in the risk of Lupus nephritis.
A 5-day treatment of acute febrile UTIs in children with oral amoxicillin-clavulanic acid was non-inferior to a 10-day treatment.
In patients with chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension (the kidney-dysfunction triad) the use of an EHR-based algorithm and practice facilitators embedded in primary care to assist providers in delivering guideline-based interventions reduces hospitalization rate at 1 year.
In patients with chronic kidney disease empagliflozin reduces the risk of kidney disease progression.