geoffrey modest medical blogs

  a recent article based on 2 long-term large observational studies found that consuming olive oil was associated with decreased total and cause-specific mortality (see   mortality dec with olive oil JACC2021  in dropbox, or doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.10.041)    Details: -- databases:      -- 60,582 women in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), from 1990-2018      -- 31,801 men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS), from 1990-2018          -- all were free from baseline cardiovascular disease or cancer          -- diet was assessed by semiquantitative food frequency questionnaires every four years, consisting of >130 food items, and questioning how often, on average  in the preceding year , participants consumed specific foods as well as the types of fats, oils, and brand or type of oil used in cooking              -- for olive oil consumption, they calculated the sum of 3 items: olive oil used for salad dressings, olive oil added to food or bread, and olive oil used for

  A new analysis of 2 rural Massachusetts jails found that people incarcerated with opioid use disorder and treated with buprenorphine were less likely to be arrested again (see  opiate buprenorphine in jail dec recidivism DrugAlcDependence2022  in dropbox, or doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109254 for the article, or the NIH news release at   https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/offering-buprenorphine-medication-people-opioid-use-disorder-jail-may-reduce-rearrest-reconviction  ). and thanks to Coleen Labelle for bringing this to my attention.   Details: --469 adults (197 in Franklin County and 272 in Hampshire County jails) were incarcerated, had opioid use disorder, and left the jail between 1/1/15 and 4/30/19 --Franklin County (FC) jail, but not Hampshire Country (HC)    jail, began offering buprenorphine in these two contiguous, similar counties in western Massachusetts -- 95% male, 96% white, mean age 35 -- age at first arraignment 18, mean number of arraignments 13, nu