Day: Oct 25, 2019

Cardiology

Bedtime hypertension treatment improves #cardiovascular risk reduction: the Hygia Chronotherapy Trial

In this multicentre, controlled, prospective endpoint trial, 19 084 hypertensive patients (10 614 men/8470 women, 60.5 ± 13.7 years of age) were assigned (1:1) to ingest the entire daily dose of ≥1 hypertension medications at bedtime (n = 9552) or all of them upon awakening (n = 9532) ..Patients of the bedtime, compared with the upon-waking, treatment-time regimen showed significantly lower hazard ratio—adjusted for significant influential characteristics of age, sex, type 2 … Continue reading Bedtime hypertension treatment improves #cardiovascular risk reduction: the Hygia Chronotherapy Trial

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Infectivology, Pneumology

C-Reactive Protein Testing to Guide Antibiotic Prescribing for #COPD Exacerbations

Point-of-care testing of C-reactive protein (#CRP) may be a way to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics without harming patients who have acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A lower percentage of patients in the CRP-guided group than in the usual-care group received an antibiotic prescription at the initial consultation (47.7% vs. 69.7%, for a difference of 22.0 percentage points; adjusted odds ratio, 0.31; … Continue reading C-Reactive Protein Testing to Guide Antibiotic Prescribing for #COPD Exacerbations

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