BMJ medicinePub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1136/bmj.p1937
{"title":"Social contact and brain size . . . and other stories","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/bmj.p1937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1937","url":null,"abstract":"Social isolation has been linked to declining cognitive function and late-life depressive symptoms. In a study of 9000 older adults (≥65 years) living in Japan who had undergone brain MRI scans, it was also associated with lower total brain volume and a higher burden of white matter lesions. Brain regions affected included those known to be involved with memory, mood, and cognition, such as the temporal lobe, hippocampus, and amygdala. (Neurology doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000207602).","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"15 12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86934504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ medicinePub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2022-074142
Shurong Chen, Yi Chen
{"title":"Pyogenic granuloma of the small intestine","authors":"Shurong Chen, Yi Chen","doi":"10.1136/bmj-2022-074142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-074142","url":null,"abstract":"This double balloon endoscopy image shows a pyogenic granuloma in the small intestine of a man in his 50s (fig 1). He presented with a two year history of melaena and passing shapeless, mucinous stools twice a day, and fatigue for five months. Blood tests showed iron deficiency anaemia (haemoglobin 70 g/L). No lesions were identified on gastroscopy and colonoscopy. Capsule endoscopy, however, indicated a bleeding jejunal mass in the small intestine, and double balloon endoscopy was performed to better locate the mass. The lesion was removed laparoscopically, with pathology confirming pyogenic granuloma. This common benignvasculartumouraffectstheskinormucousmembrane. 1 Althoughrarelyreportedinthegastrointestinal tract, pyogenic granuloma is a differential diagnosis for iron deficiency anaemia in the presence of bloody stools or melaena. 1 2","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81581840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ medicinePub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1136/bmj.p1982
Guy G. MacGowan
{"title":"Simon W MacGowan","authors":"Guy G. MacGowan","doi":"10.1136/bmj.p1982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1982","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87354099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ medicinePub Date : 2023-08-30eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000521
Fanny Kilpi, Hayley E Jones, Maria Christine Magnus, Gillian Santorelli, Lise Kristine Højsgaard Schmidt, Stine Kjaer Urhoj, Scott M Nelson, Derek Tuffnell, Robert French, Per Minor Magnus, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Pekka Martikainen, Kate Tilling, Deborah A Lawlor
{"title":"Association between perinatal mortality and morbidity and customised and non-customised birthweight centiles in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Wales, and England: comparative, population based, record linkage study.","authors":"Fanny Kilpi, Hayley E Jones, Maria Christine Magnus, Gillian Santorelli, Lise Kristine Højsgaard Schmidt, Stine Kjaer Urhoj, Scott M Nelson, Derek Tuffnell, Robert French, Per Minor Magnus, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Pekka Martikainen, Kate Tilling, Deborah A Lawlor","doi":"10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000521","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000521","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To compare the risk of adverse perinatal outcomes according to infants who are born small for gestational age (SGA; <10th centile) or large for gestational age (LGA; >90th centile), as defined by birthweight centiles that are non-customised (ie, standardised by sex and gestational age only) and customised (by sex, gestational age, maternal weight, height, parity, and ethnic group).</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Comparative, population based, record linkage study with meta-analysis of results.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Denmark, Finland, Norway, Wales, and England (city of Bradford), 1986-2019.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>2 129 782 infants born at term in birth registries.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Stillbirth, neonatal death, infant death, admission to neonatal intensive care unit, and low Apgar score (<7) at 5 minutes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Relative to those infants born average for gestational age (AGA), both SGA and LGA births were at increased risk of all five outcomes, but observed relative risks were similar irrespective of whether non-customised or customised charts were used. For example, for SGA versus AGA births, when non-customised and customised charts were used, relative risks pooled over countries were 3.60 (95% confidence interval 3.29 to 3.93) versus 3.58 (3.02 to 4.24) for stillbirth, 2.83 (2.18 to 3.67) versus 3.32 (2.05 to 5.36) for neonatal death, 2.82 (2.07 to 3.83) versus 3.17 (2.20 to 4.56) for infant death, 1.66 (1.49 to 1.86) versus 1.54 (1.30 to 1.81) for low Apgar score at 5 minutes, and (based on Bradford data only) 1.97 (1.74 to 2.22) versus 1.94 (1.70 to 2.21) for admission to the neonatal intensive care unit. The estimated sensitivity of combined SGA or LGA births to identify the three mortality outcomes ranged from 31% to 34% for non-customised charts and from 34% to 38% for customised charts, with a specificity of 82% and 80% with non-customised and customised charts, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results suggest an increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes of a similar magnitude among SGA or LGA term infants when customised and non-customised centiles are used. Use of customised charts for SGA/LGA births-over and above use of non-customised charts for SGA/LGA births-is unlikely to provide benefits in terms of identifying term births at risk of these outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"e000521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10471867/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10153190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ medicinePub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1136/bmj.p1994
J. Illman
{"title":"Peter Brunt: gastroenterologist, physician to the Queen in Scotland, and ordained priest","authors":"J. Illman","doi":"10.1136/bmj.p1994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1994","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81081677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}