BMJ medicinePub Date : 2023-09-19eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000497
Ian C Marschner, Mark Jones, James A Totterdell, Robert K Mahar, Thomas L Snelling, Steven Y C Tong
{"title":"Transparent reporting of adaptive clinical trials using concurrently randomised cohorts.","authors":"Ian C Marschner, Mark Jones, James A Totterdell, Robert K Mahar, Thomas L Snelling, Steven Y C Tong","doi":"10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000497","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000497","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adaptive clinical trials have designs that evolve over time because of changes to treatments or changes to the chance that participants will receive these treatments. These changes might introduce confounding that biases crude comparisons of the treatment arms and makes the results from standard reporting methods difficult to interpret for adaptive trials. To deal with this shortcoming, a reporting framework for adaptive trials was developed based on concurrently randomised cohort reporting. A concurrently randomised cohort is a subgroup of participants who all had the same treatments available and the same chance of receiving these treatments. The reporting of pre-randomisation characteristics and post-randomisation outcomes for each concurrently randomised cohort in the study is recommended. This approach provides a transparent and unbiased display of the degree of baseline balance and the randomised treatment comparisons for adaptive trials. The key concepts, terminology, and recommendations underlying concurrently randomised cohort reporting are presented, and its routine use in adaptive trial reporting is advocated.</p>","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"e000497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/7f/d4/bmjmed-2023-000497.PMC10510920.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41175421","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 : 2023-09-11eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000569
Jennifer J Yland, Amelia K Wesselink, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, Krista Huybrechts, Elizabeth E Hatch, Tanran R Wang, David Savitz, Wendy Kuohung, Kenneth J Rothman, Lauren A Wise
{"title":"Preconception contraceptive use and miscarriage: prospective cohort study.","authors":"Jennifer J Yland, Amelia K Wesselink, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, Krista Huybrechts, Elizabeth E Hatch, Tanran R Wang, David Savitz, Wendy Kuohung, Kenneth J Rothman, Lauren A Wise","doi":"10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000569","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To evaluate the association between preconception contraceptive use and miscarriage.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Prospective cohort study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Residents of the United States of America or Canada, recruited from 2013 until the end of 2022.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>13 460 female identified participants aged 21-45 years who were planning a pregnancy were included, of whom 8899 conceived. Participants reported data for contraceptive history, early pregnancy, miscarriage, and potential confounders during preconception and pregnancy.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measure: </strong>Miscarriage, defined as pregnancy loss before 20 weeks of gestation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Preconception use of combined and progestin-only oral contraceptives, hormonal intrauterine devices, copper intrauterine devices, rings, implants, or natural methods was not associated with miscarriage compared with use of barrier methods. Participants who most recently used patch (incidence rate ratios 1.34 (95% confidence interval 0.81 to 2.21)) or injectable contraceptives (1.44 (0.99 to 2.12)) had higher rates of miscarriage compared with recent users of barrier methods, although results were imprecise due to the small numbers of participants who used patch and injectable contraceptives.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Use of most contraceptives before conception was not appreciably associated with miscarriage rate. Individuals who used patch and injectable contraceptives had higher rates of miscarriage relative to users of barrier methods, although these results were imprecise and residual confounding was possible.</p>","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"e000569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/f2/d0/bmjmed-2023-000569.PMC10496668.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10626432","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1136/bmj.p1993
{"title":"Stop smoking, keep walking, . . . and other stories","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/bmj.p1993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1993","url":null,"abstract":"The human genome encodes approximately 20 000 proteins. Understandably enough, investigations have concentrated on genes and proteins whose function is known.However, thehuman “unknome,” the one fifth of humangeneswhosepurpose remains mysterious, shouldn’t be ignored. Many of these genes are conserved across species. In experiments with fruit flies, removing one of these mystery genes caused the insects to die. The compilers of a new database of genes with unknown functions hope it will widen the focus of genetic research (PLoS Biol doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002222).","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80405852","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2023-074870
Takanori Yamaguchi, Kei Suzuki
{"title":"A persistent sore throat","authors":"Takanori Yamaguchi, Kei Suzuki","doi":"10.1136/bmj-2023-074870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-074870","url":null,"abstract":"Takanori Yamaguchi, Kei Suzuki This man in his 30s had a sore throat for two months and was initially thought to have viral pharyngitis. He then developed fever and enlarged, painful cervical lymph nodes. On examination, white patches were visible on the soft palate (fig 1). Biopsy of these patches excluded malignancy. Results from serum Treponema pallidumhaemagglutination and rapidplasma reagin (RPR) testswere positive (RPR: 120units) and secondary syphilis was diagnosed. Antibody test results for HIV-1 and 2 were negative. The man had condomless sex and mutual oral sex with a sex worker three months before presentation. He had no other sexual partners and no history of sexually transmitted diseases.","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76140091","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 : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1136/bmj.p2041
K. Abbasi
{"title":"NSAIDs and contraceptives: critical thinking on a harmful drug interaction","authors":"K. Abbasi","doi":"10.1136/bmj.p2041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p2041","url":null,"abstract":"As an early career doctor I prescribed diclofenac liberally. It was my go-to anti-inflammatory drug for patients in hospital. My prescribing habit wasn’t influenced by evidence but by learnt behaviour. It was the drug others prescribed. Ibuprofen was one of the other options, and during my stint in rheumatology a consultant hadwarnedmeof people taking ibuprofen “like smarties” but being unaware of the risk of renal failure. If not ibuprofen, then diclofenac, or another non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Perhaps the evidencewasn’t then clear about the effects of prescribing NSAIDs to women using hormonal contraception? Perhaps I should have paid more attention? Perhaps I would have been better served by critical appraisal and knowledge synthesis and translation, skills I had barely acquired?","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78439850","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 : 2023-09-04eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1136/bmjmed-2022-000372
Rodolfo J Galindo, Jennifer M Trujillo, Cecilia C Low Wang, Rozalina G McCoy
{"title":"Advances in the management of type 2 diabetes in adults.","authors":"Rodolfo J Galindo, Jennifer M Trujillo, Cecilia C Low Wang, Rozalina G McCoy","doi":"10.1136/bmjmed-2022-000372","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjmed-2022-000372","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Type 2 diabetes is a chronic and progressive cardiometabolic disorder that affects more than 10% of adults worldwide and is a major cause of morbidity, mortality, disability, and high costs. Over the past decade, the pattern of management of diabetes has shifted from a predominantly glucose centric approach, focused on lowering levels of haemoglobin A<sub>1c</sub> (HbA<sub>1c</sub>), to a directed complications centric approach, aimed at preventing short term and long term complications of diabetes, and a pathogenesis centric approach, which looks at the underlying metabolic dysfunction of excess adiposity that both causes and complicates the management of diabetes. In this review, we discuss the latest advances in patient centred care for type 2 diabetes, focusing on drug and non-drug approaches to reducing the risks of complications of diabetes in adults. We also discuss the effects of social determinants of health on the management of diabetes, particularly as they affect the treatment of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes.</p>","PeriodicalId":72433,"journal":{"name":"BMJ medicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"e000372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/5c/3c/bmjmed-2022-000372.PMC10481754.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10186511","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 : 2023-08-31DOI: 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}