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Evidence Watch: Implantable defibrillators might not affect death
Results of a recent review show a significant reduction in mortality with ICD. The effect, however, was weakened by the inclusion of the largest recent trial. Carl Heneghan, Editor in Chief One essential element of determining if a trial is sufficiently robust enough to believe the results is that the control group received standard […]
Prostate cancer now kills more people than breast cancer: cause for alarm?
‘As epidemiologists, we are not alarmed by the apparent ‘increase’ in deaths from prostate cancer,’ here’s why Jason Oke For the first time in the UK, the number of deaths from prostate cancer has exceeded the numbers of deaths from breast cancer. According to figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), more […]
Evidence Watch: uncertainties with the evidence for influenza vaccination
This week’s Evidence Watch highlights serious uncertainties with the current evidence-base for influenza vaccination Carl Heneghan, Editor in Chief A systematic review of vaccines in the elderly [1] highlights the difference vaccination makes in a single season (lowers risk of influenza from 6% to 2.4%); but adds caution, in that we have very little […]
Evidence Watch: Carl Heneghan’s view on evidence that impacts practice
This week’s Evidence Watch highlights preoperative physio, the risk of heart disease in relation to the number of cigarettes smoked per day, use of antipsychotics in hospital and risk of pneumonia, the effect of exercise across 17 countries and the impact of having a large preterm baby. Carl Heneghan, Editor in Chief Does a single […]
Evidence Watch: Carl Heneghan’s selection of evidence that impacts on practice
This week’s Evidence Watch highlights the risk of pre-eclampsia with metformin, the role of repeated influenza vaccination, de-prescribing medications and assessing harms in the elderly at the time of elective surgery. Carl Heneghan, Editor in Chief A meta-analysis evaluating the risk of pre-eclampsia in women taking metformin before, or during pregnancy found that there […]
Centrally-acting drugs for obesity cause more harm than good
Centrally acting medicines increase the chance of losing at least 5% of body weight, but their use increases the risks of serious of harms Igho Onakpoya Are the benefits and harms of currently available centrally-acting weight loss drugs (medicines that act on the brain) different from those withdrawn from the market at the time of […]
Evidence Watch: Carl Heneghan
This week’s Evidence Watch highlights the risk of acute kidney injury, appropriate use of antibiotics, chest pain rules, interventions to reduce pre-term birth and calcium and vitamin D supplements Carl Heneghan, Editor in Chief Concern over renal injury with contrast-enhanced CT was laid to rest with a meta-analysis of 28 studies in the Ann […]