Pulmonology

Findings seen in older hospitalized patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia, or kidney failure

Factors linked to more ambulatory contact days include younger age, female sex, White race, non-Hispanic ethnicity

Individuals using more than three strategies more likely to feel sleepy while driving, have more reported accidents

Prenatal opioid exposure linked to increased risk for infection, eczema and dermatitis, and asthma in offspring

Significant decreases seen in ever, occasional, frequent, and daily use; in 2021, daily use was higher in boys, 12th graders

Challenges for clinicians include acceptance of risks of unnecessary treatment of many children to avoid adverse outcomes for some

However, racial and ethnic disparities persisted for various cancers, including prostate, male lung and bronchus, and female colorectal cancer

Individuals with elevated C-reactive protein at 1.0 mg/dL and poverty had a greater risk for 15-year all-cause mortality

Compared with matched nonusers, gabapentinoid users have increased risk across indications of epilepsy, neuropathic pain, other chronic pain

Increased radiation with SABR boost seems to enhance local control but with reduced overall survival at highest dose