{"title":"Lipoprotein Insulin Resistance Score and Prognosis of Heart Failure","authors":"Degang Mo MD , Hongyan Dai MD","doi":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50807,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medicine","volume":"138 5","pages":"Page e95"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143821379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction notice to “Comparative Efficacy of Hormone Replacement Therapy, Etidronate, Calcitonin, Alfacalcidol, and Vitamin K in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis: The Yamaguchi Osteoporosis Prevention Study” [The American Journal of Medicine 117 (2004) 549-555]","authors":"Yoichiro Ishida MD, PhD , Shinya Kawai MD, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50807,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medicine","volume":"138 5","pages":"Pages 918-919"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143821382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Removal notice to \"Cervical Cancer Prevention: Understanding Current Clinical Data for Prophylactic Vaccines\" [The American Journal of Medicine 122 (2009) S16-S23]","authors":"Mark G. Martens MD , Howard A. Shaw MD","doi":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.02.035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.02.035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50807,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medicine","volume":"138 5","pages":"Page 917"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143821381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Removal notice to \"Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Adenocarcinoma: Etiology and Prevention\" [The American Journal of Medicine 122 (2009) S3-S9]","authors":"Thomas J. Herzog MD , Nicanor I. Barrena Medel MD","doi":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.02.036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.02.036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50807,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medicine","volume":"138 5","pages":"Page 916"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143821380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prior to Claiming that Statins Improve the Outcome of COVID-19, All Influencing Factors Must Be Included in the Regression Analyses","authors":"Josef Finsterer MD, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.10.038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.10.038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50807,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medicine","volume":"138 5","pages":"Page e93"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143821260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pedro Ruiz-Artacho, Mónica Olid Velilla, Fahd Beddar Chaib, Ramón Lecumberri, David Jiménez, Lourdes Hernández Castells, Héctor Alonso Valle, Jorge Pedraza García, Vanesa Sendín Martín, Línder Cárdenas Bravo, Alfonso Muriel, Sònia Jiménez Hernández
{"title":"Comparative Validation of Risk Assessment Models for Venous Thromboembolism Risk in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Insights from a Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.","authors":"Pedro Ruiz-Artacho, Mónica Olid Velilla, Fahd Beddar Chaib, Ramón Lecumberri, David Jiménez, Lourdes Hernández Castells, Héctor Alonso Valle, Jorge Pedraza García, Vanesa Sendín Martín, Línder Cárdenas Bravo, Alfonso Muriel, Sònia Jiménez Hernández","doi":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.03.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.03.027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The optimal risk assessment model (RAM) for venous thromboembolism in hospitalized medical patients remains controversial. This study aimed to assess the prognostic performance of Padua, IMPROVE and NICE guidelines' RAMs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A multicenter prospective observational study was conducted in 15 Spanish hospitals, monitoring consecutive medical inpatients for symptomatic venous thromboembolism over a 90-day follow-up period. The discriminative performance was evaluated using time-to-event analyses and competing risk models accounting for non- venous thromboembolism-related mortality. Sensitivity, specificity, and area under the ROC curve (AUC) were calculated to assess predictive accuracy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 1,273 patients, the 90-day cumulative venous thromboembolism incidence was 1.0%. After adjusting for pharmacological thromboprophylaxis, high-risk patients did not exhibit a significantly increased venous thromboembolism risk compared to low-risk patients according to Padua (aSHR 5.71; 95% CI 0.70-46.86), IMPROVE (aSHR 3.72; 95% CI 1.00-13.87), and NICE RAM (aSHR 0.97; 95% CI 0.30-3.18). Padua had the highest sensitivity (92.3% [95% CI, 62.1%-99.6%]) but lowest specificity (32.3% [95% CI, 29.7%-35.0%]), whereas IMPROVE exhibited the highest specificity (52.9% [95% CI, 50.1%-55.7%]) with moderate sensitivity (76.9% [95% CI, 46.0%-93.8%]). Discriminative performance was suboptimal for all RAMs (AUC: Padua 62.3%, IMPROVE 64.9%, NICE 50.1%).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Padua, IMPROVE, and NICE RAMs demonstrated poor predictive accuracy in stratifying venous thromboembolism risk among hospitalized medical patients. These findings underscore the need for more precise, dynamic RAMs tailored to real-world clinical settings to enhance thromboprophylaxis and patient outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":50807,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tackling Chronic Diseases from the Inside Out.","authors":"Elizabeth Siebeneck, Ralph Snyderman","doi":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.03.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.03.026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50807,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas M Ruli, David Szarvas, Alex D'Amico, Massoud Leesar
{"title":"A Case of Thyrotoxicosis-Induced Prinzmetal Angina Mimicking Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.","authors":"Thomas M Ruli, David Szarvas, Alex D'Amico, Massoud Leesar","doi":"10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.03.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.03.018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50807,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}