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Perioperative Mortality Risk After Living Kidney Donation Significantly Declined in 2013-2022

HCPLive

Findings from a recent national registry study suggest perioperative mortality after living kidney donation significantly declined in 2013-2022 compared with 1993-2002 and 2003-2012.

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Trends in sepsis-associated cardiovascular disease mortality in the United States, 1999 to 2022

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

This study aims to assess the trends of sepsis-associated CVD mortality rates and variations in mortality based on demographics and regions in the US.MethodsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) database was used to identify CVD and sepsis-related deaths from 1999 to 2022.

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Prescription Trends Between 2019 and 2022 Show the Rise of Telehealth

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A recent study saw prescription fills for stimulants, and antidepressants increased from 2019 to 2022 but decreased for opioids.

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Medicare Unveils First 10 Negotiated Drug Prices

Med Page Today

The price negotiation program was passed in 2022 as part. (MedPage Today) -- Sitagliptin (Januvia) saw the greatest drop in price among the list of 10 drugs whose new prices were announced Thursday under Medicare's drug price negotiation program.

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Short-term outpatient follow-up of vericiguat treatment in patients hospitalized for heart failure

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Although the value of vericiguat therapy in chronic HF has been gradually recognized, its safety and efficacy in the acute phase of HF remain elusive.Methods100 patients with acute HF receiving vericiguat therapy at the China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University between September 2022 and June 2023 were retrospectively analyzed.

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Temporal Trends in Noninvasive and Invasive Cardiac Testing From 2010 to 2022 in the US Medicare Population

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

in 2022, followed by single-photon emission computed tomography (CT) myocardial perfusion imaging, which decreased from 20.8% of cardiac testing use in 2011 and 67.7% Decreased use was also observed for exercise treadmill testing (2.3% to 1.7%), stress echocardiography (3.6% to 2.6%), multigated acquisition (0.4%

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CDC: Premature Mortality for Top Causes of Death Higher in Rural Areas

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- Americans living in rural areas had higher rates of preventable premature mortality from the five leading causes of death than those living in urban areas during the years 2010-2022, and the divide only appears to be growing.

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