Scan/rescan reliability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly used to estimate the geometric dimensions of lower lumbar vertebrae. While MRI-based measurements have demonstrated good reliability with interclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) of 0.80 or higher, many evaluations focus solely on the comparison of identical MRI images.

Age-Related Vulnerability to Malnutrition-Related Mortality: Younger Patients are at Risk.

Introduction: Malnutrition among older adults continues to be a prevalent health concern. While literature has highlighted an increased risk of malnutrition mortality for adults older than 65 y, the age threshold at which malnutrition effects survival and mortality remains unexplored.

Methods: Annual crude and age-adjusted malnutrition-related mortality data from 2009 to 2018 was extracted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database.

Expedited Conveyance of Out-of-Hospital-Cardiac Arrest patients with STEMI and shockable rhythms to Cardiac Arrest Centres - A Feasibility Pilot Study of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society conveyance algorithm.

Background And Aims: Guidelines suggest non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) be conveyed to cardiac arrest centres (CAC). We hypothesised that (a) a pre-hospital conveyance algorithm based on initial presenting rhythm following OHCA is feasible and (b) that would demonstrate survival advantage.

Methods: This observational pilot study included all consecutive patients with OHCA from suspected cardiac aetiology from the county of Essex, United Kingdom from April 2022-April 2023.

Depression and cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress: Is anhedonia the driver?

Blunted cardiovascular reactions in response to acute psychological stress are predictive of future health risk. A large body of research has identified depression as an influential factor associated with blunted cardiovascular reactivity. Separately, there has been a resurgence in focus on anhedonia as a key feature of depression, responsible for poor treatment responses to non-improvement in cardiac event-free survival.

In vitro fatigue of human flexor digitorum tendons.

Carpal tunnel syndrome and stenosing tenosynovitis (i.e., trigger finger) are common work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) that have been linked to overuse of the flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) and flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) tendons of the hand.