Evaluating the quality of care for heart failure hospitalizations in inflammatory arthritis – A population-based cohort study by Bindee Kuriya, Lihi Eder, Sahil Koppikar, Jessica Widdifield, Anna Chu, Jiming Fang, Irene Jeong, Douglas Lee, Jacob Udell

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Beyond identification of familial hypercholesterolemia: Improving downstream visits and treatments in a large health care system by Harin Lee, Tarun Kadaru, Ruth Schneider, Taylor Triana, Carol Tujardon, Colby Ayers, Mujeeb Basit, Zahid Ahmad, Amit Khera

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Achievement of guideline-based lipid goals among very-high-risk patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: results in 213,380 individuals from the cv... by Satoshi Shoji, Nishant P. Shah, Peter Shrader, Laine E. Thomas, Jonathan D. Arnold, Nafeesa N. Dhalwani, Neena A. Thomas, Bethany Kalich, Elisa L. Priest, Mahanaz Syed, Cezary Wójcik, Eric D. Peterson, Ann Marie Navar

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A strategy to increase identification of patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Application of the Simon Broome lipid criteria in a large-scale retrospective analysis by James K. Fleming, Renee M. Sullivan, David Alfego, Natalia T. Leach, Tamara J. Richman, Jill Rafalko

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The uses of right heart catheterization in cardio-pulmonary disease: State-of-the-art by Bhavesh Katbamna, Lingling Wu, Mario Rodriguez, Phillip King, Joel Schilling, Jamal Mahar, Ajith P. Nair, Hani Jneid, Elizabeth S. Klings, Gerald L. Weinhouse, Sula Mazimba, Marc A. Simon, Markus Strauss, Chayakrit Krittanawong

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Comparisons of risk factors and outcomes between abdominal aortic aneurysm and peripheral arterial disease: a case-control study by Ian Beeton, Jay Acharya, Bengisu Kesin Meric, James Hobden, Tahir Ali, Thang S. Han

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Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm: a Swiss case series of a very rare disease and a structured review of the literature by Ramona Meier-Lienhard, Cosima Suter, Thomas Pabst, Felicitas Hitz, Jakob R. Passweg, Olivier Spertini, Nathan Cantoni, Daniel Betticher, Lucas Simeon, Michael Medinger, Stefanie Hayoz, Adrian Schmidt

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Unexplained First Trimester Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Anastasia A. Salame, Mohammad J. Jaffal, Marco A. Mouanness, Amal R. Nasser Eddin, Labib M. Ghulmiyyah

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IPV Screening and Readiness to Respond to IPV in Ob-Gyn Settings: A Patient-Physician Study by Katherine M. Jones, Laura H. Taouk, Neko M. Castleberry, Michele M. Carter, Jay Schulkin

“…Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious, preventable public health concern that largely affects women of reproductive age. Obstetrician-gynecologists (ob-gyns) have a unique opportunity to identify and support women experiencing IPV to improve women’s health. …”
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Osteoporosis in Men with Diabetes Mellitus by Claire Issa, Mira S. Zantout, Sami T. Azar

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Common Adverse Effects of Anti-TNF Agents on Gestation by Zacharias Fasoulakis, Panagiotis Antsaklis, Nikolaos Galanopoulos, Emmanuel Kontomanolis

“…Autoimmune disease has affected up to 50 million Americans, according to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) and 75 percent of those affected are women. …”
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Gestational weight gain and increased risk of cesarean delivery across body mass index categoriesAJOG Global Reports at a Glance by Pearl A. McElfish, PhD, Britni L. Ayers, PhD, Nicola L. Hawley, PhD, Aaron Caldwell, PhD, Austin Porter, DrPh, Michael D. Macechko, MD, Donya Watson, MD, Jennifer A. Callaghan-Koru, PhD, James P. Selig, PhD, Jennifer A. Andersen, PhD, Nirvana Manning, MD, Lanita White, PharmD, Enrique Gomez-Pomar, MD, Clare C. Brown, PhD

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Markers of Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Prediabetes in US Adults by Omayma Alshaarawy, Srinivas Teppala, Anoop Shankar

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How does gut microbiota affect the vaginitis axis? The mediating role of plasma metabolites by Mo Li, Qianyu Zhang, Tong Wu, Lanfang Ma, Dianxing Hu, Zixuan Yuan, Shixuan Wang, Aiyue Luo, Jinjin Zhang

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Hypokalaemia and outcomes in older patients hospitalized for heart failure by Miroslava Valentova, Samir Patel, Phillip H. Lam, Charles Faselis, Cherinne Arundel, Gregg C. Fonarow, Yan Cheng, Richard M. Allman, Stephan vonHaehling, Stefan D. Anker, Ali Ahmed

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Risk Factors for Stress Fractures in Female Runners: Results of a Survey by Therese E Johnston, Allison E Jakavick, Caroline A Mancuso, Kathleen C McGee, Lily Wei, Morgan L Wright, Jeremy Close, Ayako Shimada, Benjamin E Leiby

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Bone Mineral Density is Decreased in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis and Correlates With Serum Intact Parathormone Levels: A Cross-Sectional Study by Shefali Sharma, Aadhaar Dhooria, Tulika Singh, Varun Dhir, Arghya Chattopadhyay, Debashish Mishra, Sanjay Jain

“…Methods: Adult patients suffering from systemic sclerosis (as per the 2013 American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for systemic sclerosis) attending the rheumatology clinic at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India were recruited. …”
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Design of Epitope-Based Peptide Vaccine against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fructose Bisphosphate Aldolase Protein Using Immunoinformatics by Mustafa Elhag, Ruaa Mohamed Alaagib, Nagla Mohamed Ahmed, Mustafa Abubaker, Esraa Musa Haroun, Sahar Obi Abd Albagi, Mohammed A. Hassan

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Quality of care delivery in patients with acute heart failure: insights from the international REPORT-HF registryResearch in context by Wan Ting Tay, Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Wouter Ouwerkerk, Christiane E. Angermann, Kenneth Dickstein, John G.F. Cleland, Ulf Dahlstrom, Georg Ertl, Mahmoud Hassanein, Sergio V. Perrone, Mathieu Ghadanfar, Anja Schweizer, Achim Obergfell, Sean P. Collins, Gerasimos Filippatos, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Jasper Tromp

“…Methods: We examined the quality of care (QoC) in acute heart failure (HF) patients across different regions using quality indicators (QIs) from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) to evaluate QoC. The analysis included 17,632 patients enrolled from 358 medical centres in 44 countries between 23 July 2014 and 24 March 2017, all part of the prospective REPORT-HF cohort study. …”
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Hidden cause of paralysis: tight filum terminale in spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality by Yi Yuan, Yi Yuan, Zong Jian An, Fei Gao, Zhi Hui Li, Wei Li Xu, Yong Sun

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