Flat Oral Glucose Tolerance Test during Pregnancy and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes: A 5-Year Cohort Study.

Objective:  This study aimed to evaluate the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in women with flat response in the 100-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) performed during pregnancy in a large cohort of women with up to 5 years of follow-up.

Study Design:  A retrospective analysis of women with documented OGTT during pregnancy and T2DM data up to 5 years after pregnancy. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) screening was done by a two-step strategy.

'Luckily, I don't believe in statistics': survey of women's understanding of chance of success with futile fertility treatments.

Research Question: Why are women who face poor prognoses for success in assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment choosing to pursue procedures using their own eggs, despite receiving information that their chances of success are very low.

Design: Cross-sectional study based on an anonymous questionnaire distributed to women aged between 43 and 45 years, undergoing ART using their own oocytes, at six public outpatient fertility clinics and three public in-hospital IVF units in Israel between 2015 and 2016. The main outcome measure was personal estimation of chance to achieve a live birth after the current ART treatment cycle and the cumulative estimated rate after all the treatment cycles the patient intended to undergo.

Shared Decision-Making in Femoral Versus Radial Cardiac Catheterization.

Shared decision-making is a strategy to assist with patient involvement in medical decisions. One of its pillars is patient knowledge and understanding of the risks and benefits associated with specific procedures. We studied patient knowledge about transradial (TRA) and transfemoral (TFA) cardiac catheterization.