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Health todayHeart and stroke refines
Never starting anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation carried the highest annual costs
Among 47,427 Scots with incident atrial fibrillation, annual healthcare costs were GBP 7,288 per patient on continuous oral anticoagulation and GBP 22,751 for those never started on it.
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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine new
A blood protein score of cellular ageing predicted death in UK Biobank
A blood protein score of cellular ageing, built in UK Biobank, predicted death and later dementia, COPD, heart attack and stroke, and changed over 18 months with exercise.
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Data, models and systemsHealth systems and access confirms
Adult mortality is 26% higher for those whose fathers held lower-ranked jobs
A meta-analysis of 102 cohort studies covering about 8.5 million people in 24 countries found adult all-cause mortality 26% higher for those whose fathers held lower-ranked occupations.
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Language models identified overdose deaths from New York investigators' written reports
Reading the reports New York City death investigators write on each case, the better of two language models identified suspected overdose deaths with 92% sensitivity and 88% positive predictive value.
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Data, models and systemsValue in health new
Modelled depression screening of KwaZulu-Natal sex workers averts HIV at $490 per QALY
A transmission model for KwaZulu-Natal found depression screening with behavioural treatment most cost-effective among female sex workers, at $350 per HIV infection averted and $490 per QALY gained.
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Data, models and systemsValue in health new
Modelled hepatitis B cure is cost-effective under USD46,642 a course in the US
A Markov model estimated that a hepatitis B cure regimen working in 30% of patients would be cost-effective at a one-off price below USD46,642 in the US.
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Electronic death notification in Zambia lifted completeness from 11.9% to 17.4%
An electronic version of Zambia's death notification form, used in burial offices across four provinces, cut the mean reporting delay from six days to three.
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Health todayObesity, diabetes and GLP-1 confirms
Lower education was the most consistent marker of obesity in Korean adults
Analysis of Korea's national health and nutrition survey for 2022 to 2024 found lower education the most consistent marker of obesity in adults, with income and employment less consistent.
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Language models identified in-hospital cardiac arrests better than ICD codes
On a hand-picked set of notes, a trained language model flagged encounters for in-hospital cardiac arrest of which 88% were genuine, against 68% for an ICD-code algorithm.
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Health todayHeart and stroke new
Black patients were 4% of enrolment in the defining hypertrophic cardiomyopathy trials
Across 13 of the trials that define current treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Black patients were 3.98% of Black and White participants, as compared to 16.5% of US adults.
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Health todayObesity, diabetes and GLP-1 confirms
Swiss children with obesity from poorer areas arrive with worse cardiometabolic risk
Among 886 children treated for obesity in Bern, ten points higher on the neighbourhood socioeconomic index was associated with lower obesity severity and lower odds of insulin resistance (OR 0.80).
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record refines
Pandemic excess deaths were partly offset by a death deficit in 2024 and 2025
Across 38 countries with reliable death registration, excess deaths of 1.99-2.88 million in 2020-2023 were followed by a deficit of 0.39-1.08 million in 2024-2025.
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