COPD in chronic heart failure: Less common than previously thought?

The joint flanker effect: less social than previously thought.

Research on joint action has been taken to suggest that actors automatically co-represent the tasks and/or actions of co-actors. However, recent findings on the joint Simon effect have provided evidence for a nonsocial account, which renders automatic co-representation unlikely. In the present study, we aimed to test whether a nonsocial account is also feasible for the joint version of the flan...

Fewer orphans than previously thought?

The editors of IJE have commented on the surprising number of papers in their journal and other journals that fail to be cited even once. According to their most recent calculations, 17% of papers in IJE and 40% of those in Epidemiology achieve no recognition in the scientific literature. These numbers do not seem very plausible, so I decided to check. Using the most recent data available from ...

Fragile X syndrome is less common than previously estimated.

In 1986, a population study of school children in the city of Coventry gave an overall prevalence in males and females for fragile X syndrome of 1/952. The 29 children diagnosed as having fragile X syndrome in this study have been re-evaluated with molecular diagnostic techniques. Eighteen of the original 29 children have been found not to have the expansion of the FMR1 gene associated with fra...

Review: St John's Wort may be less effective than previously thought in people with depression.

Severe Ketoacidosis (pH ≤ 6.9) in Type 2 Diabetes: More Frequent and Less Ominous Than Previously Thought

Diabetic ketoacidosis is a life-threatening acute metabolic complication of uncontrolled diabetes. Severe cases of DKA (pH ≤ 7.00, bicarbonate level ≤ 10.0, anion gap > 12, positive ketones, and altered mental status) are commonly encountered in patients with type 1 diabetes and are thought to carry an ominous prognosis. There is not enough information on the clinical course of severely acidoti...