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Unmanaged diabetes, high blood glucose tied to COVID-19 severity
June 26, 2021
Findings suggest in part that hospitalized COVID-19 patients need aggressive treatment of hyperglycemia, regardless of the diagnosis of diabetes or A1c value.
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Profound brain changes found in patients who died of COVID-19
June 25, 2021
“The signature the virus leaves in the brain speaks of strong inflammation and disrupted brain circuits.”
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Post–acute kidney injury proteinuria predicts subsequent kidney disease progression
June 25, 2021
Does the degree of proteinuria after an episode of acute kidney injury (AKI) predict subsequent loss of kidney function?
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Opinion
Few clinical guidelines exist for treating post-COVID symptoms
June 24, 2021
‘We can prevent many infections from this virus, but we are still left to manage many post-COVID symptoms,’ says Dr. Linda Girgis.
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C. difficile guidelines offer new possibilities
June 24, 2021
Updated recommendations address issues of diagnosis, recurrence, and fecal microbial transplant.
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FDA to add myocarditis warning to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
June 24, 2021
But a CDC advisory panel, where the FDA made the announcement, still strongly backs the vaccines’ benefits, which outweigh the rare risk for heart inflammation.
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Tofacitinib shows mortality benefit in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia
June 23, 2021
The Janus kinase inhibitor tofacitinib reduces the risk of both death and respiratory failure in hospitalized adults with COVID-19 pneumonia.
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Sotagliflozin use in T2D patients linked with posthospitalization benefits in analysis
June 23, 2021
The paper’s outcome measure may be a meaningful, patient-centered way of capturing disease burden, according to the authors.
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New data on COVID-19’s cognitive fallout
June 22, 2021
“Low levels of oxygen in the brain could lead to confusion, headache, and brain fog, and cause the cognitive disturbances that we see.”
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Fact or fiction? Intravascular contrast and acute kidney injury
June 22, 2021
The risks of contrast-associated AKI are overstated, implying the truer danger lies with inadequate imaging.
