Serum Vitamin D Status and Risk of Respiratory Tract Infection–Related Hospitalization **Bournot AR, et al.** *American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.* 2025; doi:10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.101179. — ## Background Vitamin …
Statin Therapy and Risk of Acute Exacerbations in Adults With Mild Asthma — ## Background Statins, widely prescribed for cardiovascular disease prevention, exhibit pleiotropic effects that extend …
FDA Restrictions on Non-Approved GLP-1 API Use and Marketing The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to implement restrictions on the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) …
Association Between Target Urate Levels and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Gout Data published in *JAMA Internal Medicine* indicates that patients with gout who successfully achieve a serum urate level of …
Analysis of Statin Safety and Adverse Event Attribution A large-scale analysis published in *The Lancet* offers significant reassurance regarding the tolerability of statin therapy, finding that the vast majority of …
Benefits and Risks of PFO Closure by Causal Likelihood A recent meta-analysis suggests that the benefits of transcatheter PFO closure for secondary stroke prevention rely heavily on the likelihood that …
A novel cellular rejuvenation therapy, ER-100, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to proceed with human clinical testing, marking what the sponsor describes as …
Patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis continue to experience disproportionately high mortality and substantial treatment-related burden. Among the modifiable aspects of dialysis care, treatment duration represents a potentially powerful yet underused lever …
Brief Report: Prevalence and Economic Burden of Chronic Conditions in the Commercially Insured US Population (2024) Overview A 2024 analysis conducted by FAIR Health presents new data regarding the epidemiology …
Key takeaways: Using NHANES data from 2017 to 2023, obesity prevalence in the U.S. is 75.2% when excess adiposity cutoffs are used. Among adults with a BMI of less …
