Mayo Clinic proceedings
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Jul 2022
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Octogenarians-Risks, Outcomes, and Trends in 1283 Consecutive Patients.
To describe the risks, outcomes, and trends in patients older than 80 years undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). ⋯ Although CABG in octogenarians carries a higher surgical risk, it may be associated with favorable outcomes and increase in long-term survival. Further studies are warranted to define subgroups benefiting more from surgical revascularization.
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Jul 2022
Prognostic Interplay Between Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring and Cardiorespiratory FItness: The CAC-FIT Study.
To assess the incremental prognostic role of coronary artery calcium score (CACS) and exercise capacity (EC), two independent prognostic tests in the assessment of patients with coronary artery disease. ⋯ Our analysis found that CACS and EC have complementary risk-stratifying roles in coronary artery disease.
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Jul 2022
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Overdiagnosis and Overprescriptions: Medicalization of Distractions.
The use and misuse of prescription stimulants has escalated during the past decade, with concerns of being "the next epidemic." The diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and the use of prescription stimulants have rapidly increased in children and adults in the past decade. Amphetamine use more than doubled from 2006 to 2016. In 2018, among illicit substance users in the past year (53.2 million), more than 5 million 12 years or older had misused prescription stimulants. ⋯ Most persons who misused prescription stimulants received the medication from a friend or relative, who got it through a health care provider. It is important to reexamine the pattern of prescription stimulant use after the loosening of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition) criteria for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis. Caveats to the this report could be the understudied specific populations (such as medical students), the exclusion of the military and institutionalized populations from the study, and the variations among individual states in stimulant prescribing patterns.
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Recognizing the contribution art has had in the Mayo Clinic environment since the original Mayo Clinic Building was finished in 1914, Mayo Clinic Proceedings features some of the numerous works of art displayed throughout the buildings and grounds on Mayo Clinic campuses as interpreted by the author.