Stephen Gerry

TL;DR: There is an excess of models predicting incident CVD in the general population and the usefulness of most of the models remains unclear owing to methodological shortcomings, incomplete presentation, and lack of external validation and model impact studies.

TL;DR: There was no significant between‐group difference in the rate of death from any cause at 10 years in the intention‐to‐treat analysis, and further studies are needed to determine whether multiple arterial grafts provide better outcomes than a single internal‐thoracic‐artery graft.

TL;DR: Among patients undergoing CABG, there was no significant difference between those receiving single internal-thoracic-artery grafts and those receiving bilateral internal-thangrafts with regard to mortality or the rates of cardiovascular events at 5 years of follow-up.

TL;DR: Early warning scores are widely used prediction models that are often mandated in daily clinical practice to identify early clinical deterioration in hospital patients, however, many early warning scores in clinical use were found to have methodological weaknesses.

TL;DR: The present Arterial Revascularization Trial substudy suggests that, with a skeletonization technique, the risk of sternal wound complication with bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting is similar to that after standard pedicled single internal thorACic artery harvesting, whereas skeletonized single internal Thornton artery harvesting did not add any further benefit.