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Patients with HIV/AIDS have a significantly increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD).

Compared to whites, Hispanic and black patients have an increased prevalence of adenomas and an increased risk of advanced adenomas.

For asymptomatic patients who are identified as high-risk by exercise echocardiography (ExE) after coronary revascularization, repeated revascularization is not associated with improved outcomes.

Although the majority of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with status asthmaticus (SA) require mechanical ventilation, the rates of mortality and complications are very low.

Diagonal ear lobe crease (DELC) is independently and significantly associated with the prevalence, extent, and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD).

Changes in air pollution levels during the Beijing Olympics were associated with changes in biomarkers linked to cardiovascular disease in healthy young people.

For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), after 12 weeks of acupuncture, patients have better Borg scale score after six-minute walk, acupuncture appears to improve dyspnea on exertion.

For patients with acute or persistent low back pain, pain and disability improve in the first six weeks of treatment, but low-to-moderate pain and disability tend to persist at one year.

For patients presenting with dyspnea, the additional measurement of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels increases the certainty of diagnosis of heart failure and accelerates initiation of appropriate treatment.

High-volume endovascular stroke centers provide faster times to treatment, and patients are more likely to have good clinical outcomes and successful reperfusion.

Poor executive performance, as measured with the Trail Making Test (TMT)-A and -B, can identify elderly men who are at higher risk of death after a first-ever stroke.

The lifetime prevalence of nocturnal wandering with abnormal state of consciousness (NW) is approximately 30 percent in the U.S. general population.

Based on the report of a patient who died after taking one dose of the multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Gilenya (fingolimod) and on clinical trial data, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recommending extended monitoring for certain patients taking this drug.

Treatment with sumatriptan and naproxen sodium (suma/nap) is well tolerated and effective in reducing migraine pain in adolescents.

Smoking cannabis is associated with a reduction in spasticity for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Behavioral treatment for obesity is much more effective for younger children than for adolescents. The treatment effective for moderate and severe obesity.

Youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are at high risk for not participating in postsecondary education or employment, particularly in the first two years after high school.

Variation in regional hospital readmission rates for congestive heart failure is due more to the availability of care and socioeconomic factors than hospital performance or patients' degree of illness.

Treating acute ischemic stroke patients who are warfarin users with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) does not increase the risk of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH).

The use of beta blockers is not associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer (CRC).