Julia Bonavitacola

Intensive surveillance after resection on patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) was less cost-effective in stage I but most cost-effective in stage II and III disease.

Different levels of risk for HIV exist in the different subtypes of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Pregnant women who are living with HIV are underrepresented in studies on the efficacy of vaccines, leading to difficult policy decisions for this population.

Combining interventions to encourage screenings for colorectal cancer (CRC) and social determinants of health (SDOH) was found to improve screening rates in CRC without decreasing rates of screenings for SDOH.

Although corticosteroids were found to immediately improve best-corrected visual acuity and central macular thickness, anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapies had significant long-term advantages when treating diabetic macular edema.

At an Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event held in Phoenix, Arizona, experts from Banner Health and Aetna discussed how health inequities and social determinants of health can affect primary care in patients with any type of insurance.

A recent study found that transgender and gender non-binary adolescents and young adults had limited knowledge and access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

Emergent colorectal cancer (CRC) resection was found to be more prevalent in patients who identified as non-White.

Strategies used during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure continuity of care in people living with HIV can be used as a paradigm of adaptability during unexpected crises.

Several risk factors put patients with colorectal cancer at increased risk of anastomotic leakage after elective surgery.

Medically integrated dispensaries could be in violation of the Medicare Physician Self-Referral Law, known as the Stark Law, due to an interpretation of the law released in 2021.

Although rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) are higher than previous estimates, OUD was relatively stable or decreasing over time in patients with HIV.

Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) could participate in telehealth and e-health interventions to promote their sexual health, although efficacy of these interventions needs to be further studied.

Children and adolescents were at higher risk for myopic maculopathy progression if they had worse best-corrected visual acuity and longer axial length, among other risk factors.

People living with HIV reported feeling inferiority due to HIV and gloomy feelings during the COVID-19 pandemic, as researchers linked internalized HIV stigma to depressive symptoms.

Separate machine learning models were able to effectively predict both the length of hospital stay and the risk of prolonged hospitalization in people living with HIV.

A multidisciplinary approach is needed in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who contract COVID-19, as they may experience worse outcomes.

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Obesity related to metabolic syndrome was found to have a causal relationship with colorectal cancer (CRC), although this causal relationship did not exist in the opposite direction.

Incidence of colorectal cancer is expected to rise in both male and female patients aged 50 years and younger.

Endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation had better effect at early stages and ultrasound cycloplasty had higher safety and tolerance when treating intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with secondary glaucoma.

Patients living with HIV had a lower uptake of hepatitis A virus vaccination despite it being recommended for this population.

Mortality and morbidity in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) cannot be accurately predicted using the Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) in the present day.

The prognosis and disease severity of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) was found to be associated with changes in trimethylamine N-oxide.

The deterioration of bones could contribute to the loss of teeth in women who are postmenopausal and living with HIV.

Patients with chronic kidney disease are at a higher risk of developing any stage of colorectal cancer.

Congenital heart disease and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with congenital heart disease can be immediately detected using chest radiograph-based artificial intelligence (AI), a study found.

Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) undergoing operations were able to prevent postoperative infections and shorten hospital stays by taking probiotics beforehand.

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