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JMIR Publications published “Continuous Glucose Monitoring With Low-Carbohydrate Nutritional Coaching to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Control: Randomized Quality Improvement Program” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, which had the aim of comparing changes in HbA1c levels between patients with suboptimally controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) who were offered the opportunity to use an intermittently viewed continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and receive personalized low-carbohydrate nutrition counseling versus those who received usual care. Included participants (“individuals with HbA1c>7.5%…who were medically eligible for tighter glycemic control”) were split into 2 groups: usual care–high risk (UC-HR) and enhanced care (EC)–HR. The primary outcome was the mean changeRead More →

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JMIR Publications recently published “Partisan Differences in Legislators’ Discussion of Vaccination on Twitter During the COVID-19 Era: Natural Language Processing Analysis” in JMIR Infodemiology.  The aims of this study were: To evaluate vaccine-related tweets posted by state and federal legislators during the COVID-19 era and to describe the content of these tweets; To examine the differences in vaccine-related tweet content between Democrats and Republicans; and To quantify partisan differences in vaccine-related communication. These authors abstracted all vaccine-related tweets produced by state and federal legislators between February 1, 2020, and December 11, 2020. They used latent Dirichlet allocation to define the tweet topics and used descriptiveRead More →

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JMIR Publications published “A Revised Hippocratic Oath for the Era of Digital Health” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, which argues that the Hippocratic Oath, which contains a set of ethical rules designed to guide physicians through their profession, should be updated to reflect the new realities of digital health and articulate updated principles that govern the practice of modern medicine. The original Hippocratic Oath still embodies ideals that are timely and relevant even in the 21st century: To treat patients to the best of one’s ability To preserve a patient’s privacy To faithfully teach the art of medicine to the next generation DespiteRead More →

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Source: Adobe Stock Copyright: jovannig URL: https://stock.adobe.com/ca/images/caregiving-nurse-happy-with-elder-patient-in-hospital-bed/125717222 License: Licensed by JMIR The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston UTMB Media Hotline: 409-772-NEWS (6397) Please Note: Our studio is equipped with a technology that enables us to transmit live or taped HD or SD video over the Internet.  For video interviews, contact us at 409-772-6397. Contact Dizhi Marlow at 409-747-0794 or dgmarlow@utmb.edu For Immediate Release: December 7, 2022 Key Point UTMB researchers developed machine learning methods that can automatically find conditions that frequently go together in national level data, and used them to predict the risk of a patient in the clinic, and for designing targetedRead More →