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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine new
AI-guided ultrasound by operators without ultrasound training detected 93% of leg clots
Scans taken under AI guidance by operators without ultrasound training identified 92.9% of proximal deep vein thromboses, with 98.0% specificity in flagging who still needed a standard ultrasound.
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Behavioural scienceAdherence and persistence refines
Seven in ten US women stay on endocrine therapy for one year
Of 401,450 US women starting adjuvant endocrine therapy after breast surgery, 69.9% had a medication possession ratio of at least 80% over the first year.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record refines
Polygenic scores add most to prediction where clinical risk is already low
Across 150 diseases in 900,000 UK Biobank and FinnGen participants, polygenic scores added most in metabolic, cardiovascular, autoimmune and neurological disease, and added little for genitourinary and respiratory conditions.
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Data, models and systemsValue in health new
G6PD-guided primaquine package costs US$6,636 per DALY averted in Indonesia
A decision-tree model of G6PD screening with high-dose primaquine for Plasmodium vivax in Indonesia gave US$6,636 per DALY averted, above the willingness-to-pay threshold of one GDP per capita.
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Data, models and systemsRevisions and new sources new
UK database lists the additives that mark a food as ultra-processed
Researchers have sorted every additive approved in the UK by its purpose, so that those used to alter taste, colour or texture mark a product as ultra-processed.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record new
Modelled summer COVID-19 vaccination averts more US hospitalisations in over-65s
A US transmission model estimated 441 COVID-19 hospitalisations per 100,000 adults aged 65 and over under July vaccination, as compared to 578 with no further vaccination.
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Data, models and systemsWhat linked data reveals new
England's linked child health and school records miss deprived and minoritised children
ECHILD, which links hospital, school and social care records for 21 million children in England, includes children in deprived areas and in minoritised ethnic groups less often than others.
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Health todayObesity, diabetes and GLP-1 refines
Unemployed and unmarried Danes start cardioprotective diabetes drugs less often
Among 81,361 Danes with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, unemployed men started cardioprotective glucose-lowering drugs at 0.77 times the rate of employed men, and unemployed women 0.81 times.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record new
Canada's missing measles vaccine coverage figures are filled in by modelling
Researchers curated publicly available Canadian vaccine coverage data and modelled first-dose measles coverage by province, territory and age, then tested the same method against England's more complete records.
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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine confirms
Machine learning model predicted deaths best in diabetes with hypertension
Among 2,428 US adults with type 2 diabetes and hypertension in NHANES, a random forest predicted death with an AUC of 0.873, against 0.783 for logistic regression.
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Data, models and systemsHealth systems and access new
Later-born Chinese older adults spend more years happy, with widening education gaps
Analysis of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey from 2002 to 2018 found that each later-born cohort of older adults spent a higher proportion of its remaining life happy.
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Health todayCancer confirms
Kidney cancer mortality fell in Medicaid expansion states, but not for Black patients
Among 284,967 US adults aged 40 to 64 with renal cell carcinoma, overall mortality was 7.5% lower in Medicaid expansion states, with no change in five-year survival for Black patients.
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