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Fatty liver: one score earns its place for cirrhosis follow-up, none for liver cancer

An 853,000-patient VA cohort ranks nine risk scores for steatotic liver disease. Also: hospital-to-clinic linkage for alcohol use disorder, why the cirrhosis SBP cut-off misleads in malignant ascites, and meals after discharge.

5 findings · 6 min

22 Sep

Withholding the ACE inhibitor before surgery changed nothing across 638 patients

A randomised trial finds no difference in cardiovascular events, intraoperative hypotension or acute kidney injury whether angiotensin-axis blockers are continued or held for 24 hours before elective non-cardiac surgery. A new tobacco treatment guideline puts varenicline and combination nicotine replacement ahead of single-agent therapy, and half of hospitalists think asymptomatic inpatient hypertension should be left alone.

5 findings · 8 min