meta analysis

(MedPage Today) -- For patients with type 2 diabetes, tight glycemic control does not reduce the risk of heart failure, according to a large meta-analysis.

(MedPage Today) -- A meta-analysis of studies that used the same clopidogrel (Plavix) responsiveness test confirmed that high platelet reactivity during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) predicts mortality and other longer-term risks.

(MedPage Today) -- Children with asthma had a five-fold greater risk of adverse events with long-acting beta-agonists compared with the general population of asthma patients, FDA investigators concluded from a meta-analysis.

(MedPage Today) -- Patients who have coronary artery disease and strong coronary collateral circulation appear to have improved survival, a meta-analysis showed.

(MedPage Today) -- A gene called PYHIN1 may account for a surprisingly large proportion of asthma risk in people of African descent, said researchers conducting a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.

(MedPage Today) -- Users of the smoking-cessation drug varenicline (Chantix) who had no previous cardiac history had a small but statistically significant increase in the risk of cardiovascular events, a meta-analysis of randomized trials showed.

(MedPage Today) -- Screening pregnant women for syphilis could reduce the stillbirths and perinatal deaths associated with the disease by more than half, a meta-analysis suggested.

(MedPage Today) -- Mothers who use acetaminophen when they are pregnant may be placing their unborn children at risk for asthma, a meta-analysis of six observational studies suggested.

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- A meta-analysis of five clinical trials suggests that African-American patients infected with HIV are more likely to experience virologic failure than whites after initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART), researchers said.

(MedPage Today) -- Warming a local anesthetic to body temperature before injection can help ease the pain associated with infiltration of the drug, a meta-analysis found.