THE MISPRESCRIBING OF Z-DRUGS FOR INSOMNIA

The misprescribing of Z-drugs for insomnia

Scarcely a day goes by without sleep being in the news.One long-running strand concerns media coverage of sleep medicines, particularly the Z-drugs (i.e.Zopiclone and Zolpidem), which have tended over time to receive a bad press.Rising prescription numbers, escalating costs to the NHS, and raised mortality risks all hint at an epidemic of “mispre

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Association between 90o push-up and cardiorespiratory fitness: cross-sectional evidence of push-up as a tractable tool for physical fitness surveillance in youth

Abstract Background Despite being associated with health outcomes like abdominal adiposity, depression, anxiety, and cardiovascular disease risk among youth, largely, clinicians still do not adopt physical fitness testing.A clarion call for increased surveillance was previously issued, in order to address the US population-level lack of knowledge r

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Assimilation of Radar Data, Pseudo Water Vapor, and Potential Temperature in a 3DVAR Framework for Improving Precipitation Forecast of Severe Weather Events

An improved approach to derive pseudo water Apparel vapor mass mixing ratio and in- cloud potential temperature was developed in this paper to better initialize numerical weather prediction (NWP) and build convective-scale predictions of severe weather events.The process included several steps.The first was to identify areas of deep moist convectio

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ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF THROMBOEMBOLIC COMPLICATIONS PREVENTION WITH ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS ON BUDGET IN PATIENTS WITH NON-VALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a risk factor for thromboembolic complications, requiring administration of vitamin K antagonists (warfarin) or the new oral anticoagulants (apixaban, dabigatran and rivaroxaban).Aim.To assess the influence of apixaban use on the budget as an alternative to warfarin, dabigatran or rivaroxaban use in patients with non-val

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