USMLE Scores for Nepali Docs Will Remain Invalidated, Judge Rules
A Washington D.C. district court judge denied an emergency motion to restore score validity for 832 Nepali medical graduates whose U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores were invalidated due to accusations of cheating. Last week, Latika Giri, MBBS, a Nepali medical graduate who lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, launched a class action lawsuit against the National […]
Even Small Diabetes Distress Changes Clinically Important
Just a quarter of a point change in Diabetes Distress Scale-17 (DDS-17) score was enough to be clinically important, according to a secondary analysis of a clinical trial. Using data from a randomized trial of Veterans with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, a 0.25 or greater drop in DDS-17 score was determined to be a clinically […]
Dementia Risk From Midlife Onward Predicted With New Tool
A novel 14-year risk score helped identify people from age 50 onward at risk for all-cause dementia, a large U.K. study showed. The tool, called the U.K. Biobank Dementia Risk Score (UKBDRS), was developed and validated in two U.K. cohorts, reported Raihaan Patel, PhD, of the University of Oxford in England, and co-authors. The area […]
Pediatric Asthma Risk Score Robust Across Diverse Backgrounds
The Pediatric Asthma Risk Score (PARS) remained an effective tool for estimating asthma risk when used for patients of varying backgrounds, a study of 10 cohorts found. The area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) for the PARS assessment was 0.76 (95% CI 0.74-0.78), with AUC scores ranging from 0.61-0.83 across the cohorts, reported Gurjit […]
PURE Healthy Diet Sees Advantage by Promoting Whole-Fat Dairy for Heart Health
By counting whole-fat dairy as a protective food, the new PURE Healthy Diet score strengthened the relationship between healthy eating and heart disease in a large study. For individuals with and without cardiovascular disease (CVD), higher intake of protective foods (i.e., PURE diet score ≥5 points out of 6) compared with lower intake (diet score […]
Dementia Risk Score Touts ‘Nearly 100%’ Predictive Accuracy
A novel clinical risk score predicted the chance of future dementia with high accuracy, but raised questions from dementia experts. Using data from nearly 450,000 people in the U.K. Biobank cohort, Xi-jian Dai, PhD, of The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in China, and colleagues developed a practical tool to predict individual risk of […]