Publications by authors named "D J Bryan"
Perceptions of Frailty and Prehabilitation Among Thoracic Surgeons: Findings From a National Survey.
Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep
September 2024
Background: Frailty is associated with increased perioperative morbidity and mortality. How thoracic surgeons recognize, measure, and mitigate frailty in their daily clinical practice is unknown. We administered a national survey to determine the current practices of thoracic surgeons managing frail patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Well-designed patient education materials (PEMs) increase health literacy, which has been linked to better surgical patient outcomes. The quality of lung cancer surgery PEMs is unknown, however. Here we assessed printed lung cancer surgery PEMs for readability, understandability, actionability, and accessibility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To provide evidence-based recommendations to practicing physicians and others on the management of pleural mesothelioma (PM).
Methods: ASCO convened an Expert Panel of medical oncology, thoracic surgery, radiation oncology, pathology, cancer genetics, and advocacy experts to conduct an updated literature search, which included systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials, and prospective and retrospective comparative observational studies published from 2016 through 2024. Outcomes of interest included survival, disease-free or recurrence-free survival, and quality of life.
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- The study investigated how insulin sensitivity, insulin response to glucose, and diet affect fat loss and energy expenditure in African American women with obesity.
- 69 women were assigned to either a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet for 10 weeks, with measures of body composition and energy expenditure taken before and after.
- Results showed that those on a low-CHO diet lost more fat and experienced less decline in energy expenditure than those on a low-fat diet, suggesting low-CHO diets may be more effective for fat loss in this group.
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- The study focuses on understanding the distribution and diversity of environmental bacteria linked to foodborne illnesses by examining soil samples from Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina, where different strains were cultured and sequenced.
- It was found that most strains were isolated from lower altitudes, and the research highlighted a trend of decreasing bacterial diversity and abundance of these bacteria as altitude increased.
- Combining traditional culturing techniques with modern metagenomic sequencing, the study enhances our understanding of how these pathogens are distributed in nature and proposes new methods for tracking foodborne contamination sources.