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PodMed is created by Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange M.D., professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, president of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and dean of the Paul Foster School of Medicine.
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e-Cigarette Benefits?
October 9th, 2017|Medical News Commentary|By Elizabeth Tracey
The authors created two models for predicting the impact of outlawing combustible cigarettes and replacing them with e-cigarettes in the United States, one called an Optimistic Scenario and the other a Pessimistic Scenario. Each calculated deaths averted and healthcare costs avoided if such a change took place over a ten year period. These were compared with a Status Quo model where no changes were implemented, and all models considered the time period from 2016 to 2100 per age and sex, and projected mortality. By their calculations the Optimistic Scenario "yields 6.6 million fewer premature deaths with 86.7 million fewer life years lost" while with the Pessimistic Scenario "1.6 million premature deaths are averted with 20.8 million fewer life years lost." That's a lot of death and life lost, let alone healthcare costs for lung cancer and COPD. Predictably, Rick and I vote yes!
Other topics this week include Tattoo Pigment–Induced Granulomatous Lymphadenopathy Mimicking Lymphoma in Annals of Internal Medicine, A single mutation in the prM protein of Zika virus contributes to fetal microcephaly in Science, and Association of Health Literacy With Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery in JAMA Surgery. Until next week, y'all live well.