{"id":41803,"date":"2018-04-09T08:58:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T07:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=41803"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T10:27:52","slug":"richard-lehmans-journal-reviews-9-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/04\/09\/richard-lehmans-journal-reviews-9-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Lehman&#8217;s journal reviews\u20149 April 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\">Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30995\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/01\/richard_lehman.jpg\" alt=\"richard_lehman\" width=\"160\" height=\"108\" \/><b><i>NEJM \u00a0<\/i><\/b><b>5 Apr 2018<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Childhood obesity and later-life hyperglycaemia<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warning: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1713231\">this article <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is entirely about Danish men. It is like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hamlet <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">without Gertrude or Ophelia. Let&#8217;s say you grew up like a Danish prince, well fattened on bacon and pastries, so that you were overweight by the age of 7. But then you became thinner by the age of 13 as a result of eating the air, promise-cramm&#8217;d. You survive the poisoned sword, reign wisely, and reach a ripe age, free of the label of type 2 diabetes: &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1713231\">Men who had had remission of overweight before the age of 13 years had a risk of having type 2 diabetes diagnosed at 30 to 60 years of age that was similar to that among men who had never been overweight<\/a>&#8220;<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">says this study involving 62,565 Danish men. They were part of a male cohort whose weights and heights had been measured at 7 and 13 years of age and in early adulthood; their diabetes status was determined from a current national registry. On the other hand, let&#8217;s imagine that Hamlet had grown obese from eating funeral baked meats and the tempting sweetmeats of the Elsinore kitchens throughout adolescence. In this case, his risk of a diagnosis of T2DM by the age of 60 would have risen fourfold. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now: was Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet thin or fat? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I&#8217;m afraid his mum gives us the answer:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/upstart.sites.clemson.edu\/Essays\/navarro_hamlet\/navarro_hamlet.xhtml\">He\u2019s fat, and scant of breath<\/a>\u201d (5.2.287).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Epigenetics update<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Was Hamlet&#8217;s obesity the result of his genes or his eating choices? I hope you see that there is some entanglement between the two, and that the &#8220;choices&#8221; available to a Danish prince might have been different from those of a Danish peasant. Also, that chance may play a role besides genes and environment. Let&#8217;s move to epigenetics: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMra1402513\">a subject wonderfully explored in a single-author article by Andrew Feinberg<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. &#8220;The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org.ezproxyd.bham.ac.uk\/doi\/10.1056\/NEJMra1402513\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">epigenome<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> consists of nuclear information, heritable during cell division, that controls development, tissue differentiation, and cellular responsiveness. Epigenetic information is controlled by genome sequence, environmental exposure, and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org.ezproxyd.bham.ac.uk\/doi\/10.1056\/NEJMra1402513\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stochasticity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or random chance. As such, epigenetics stands at the interface of the genome, development, and environmental exposure.&#8221; I can&#8217;t possibly try to convey the subtlety and complexity of this piece, which even contains a new mathematical definition of biological entropy quite separate from the familiar (and equally confusing) thermodynamic definition of entropy. You can skip all that if you wish. The title of the piece is &#8220;The Key Role of Epigenetics in Human Disease Prevention and Mitigation&#8221; which incorporates the compulsory American posture of scientific positivism. The Elizabethans were deeper and wiser. Hamlet (c.1600) can be read as a post-Christian discourse on the essential unpreventability or mitigation of the human condition. Of course it can also be read as a thousand other things: like all the greatest art, it has no circumference. Edmund Spencer&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mutabilitie Cantoes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, written at the same time as Hamlet, are an essentially pre-Christian Platonic meditation about the same thing, which tries to end on an optimistic note. Towards the end of the poem, Mutability (you can read epigenetics) points out her ubiquitous power, but gives the last word to the goddess Nature. A long silence ensues, but then Nature speaks:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At length, she looking vp with chearefull view,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The silence brake, and gaue her doome in speeches few.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I well consider all that ye haue sayd,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And find that all things steadfastnes doe hate<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And changed be: yet being rightly wayed<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They are not changed from their first estate;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But by their change their being doe dilate:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And turning to themselues at length againe,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doe worke their owne perfection so by fate:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then ouer them Change doth not rule and raigne;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But they raigne ouer change, and doe their states maintaine.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All very well if you&#8217;re Nature, but sometimes a bit of a bummer if you&#8217;re a human being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>JAMA \u00a0<\/i><\/b><b>3 Apr 2018<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Atorvastatin loading before acute PCI<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be, or not to be, I there&#8217;s the point.&#8221; Hamlet says in the First Quarto of the play, which was probably a loose recollection put down by some panicky idiot in the audience. But for many clinical trials, this really is the point. <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/article-abstract\/2675023?redirect=true\">A trial conducted in 53 cardiac centres in Brazil<\/a> compared survival in patients who were or were not given two loading doses of atorvastatin at the time of planned percutaneous coronary intervention, 80mg before and after. For death, there was no difference in outcomes: for the rest of the composite primary outcomes, there was a weak signal in favour of the early statin, but nothing that would suggest statistical or clinical significance. Bizarrely, the editorial on this trial has the title &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lipid Lowering in Acute Coronary Syndrome&#8221;. If there was one thing this trial did not test, it was lipid lowering. The aim was to test whether statins lower acute cardiac mortality long before they have any time to lower lipids. I, there&#8217;s the point. That is the question. I doubt whether this will be the last word on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Negative wealth shock<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And now\u2014in this very sparse week in the journals\u2014we come to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and their effect on life expectancy in Americans. The title of the study refers to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2677445\">Negative Wealth Shock<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, something the Elizabethans were very familiar with. The most popular song ever written in England ends:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the highest spire of contentment<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My fortune is thrown;<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And fear and grief and pain for my deserts, for my deserts<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are my hopes, since hope is gone.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell,<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn to contemn light<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Happy, happy they that in hell<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feel not the world&#8217;s despite.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(John Dowland 1600, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flow my tears<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the case of this 1994-2014 survey, negative wealth shock was defined as a loss of 75% or more of total net worth over a 2-year period, or asset poverty, defined as 0 or negative total net worth at study entry. There were 30.6 vs 64.9 deaths per 1000 person-years for those with continuously positive wealth vs negative wealth shock. There is a striking lack of data about causes of death in this paper. I couldn&#8217;t find the overall figures for suicide, let alone bare-bodkin-related injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Hamlet&#8217;s Garden<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What little we know about Shakespeare as a man is mostly inferred from his plays. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hamlet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shows us that he was an experienced theatrical director\u2014which we had kind of guessed already\u2014and that he was a gardener who hated weeds. The adjective &#8220;rank&#8221; appears several times in the play, beginning with Hamlet&#8217;s first soliloquy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">O God, God,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seem to me all the uses of this world!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fie on&#8217;t, ah fie, &#8217;tis an unweeded garden<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Possess it merely<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hardly a word in this passage has survived unaltered by Shakespeare&#8217;s use of it: everybody speaks and thinks a different English since Hamlet. But four hundred years of familiarity have done nothing to dull its terrible force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hamlet&#8217;s confrontation with his mother remains unbearable. The word rank is repeated, twice:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lay not that flattering unction to your soul<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That not your trespass but my madness speaks,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It will but skin and film the ulcerous place<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While rank corruption mining all within<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Infects unseen&#8230;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And do not spread the compost on the weeds<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To make them ranker&#8230;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of Ophelia and her flowers we need not speak or paint: too many Victorians have been at this already.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The garden which Shakespeare&#8217;s son Hamnet played in was destroyed in the middle of the eighteenth century. An adjacent public walled garden may include part of it, and is still a pleasant place to escape the Stratford tourists, who mostly don&#8217;t seem to know about it. But there are ominous signs of new interest in this site: I suspect that before long there will be plantings of rosemary and rue and other boring knot-gardeny plants, and a gate to take money from people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/04\/09\/richard-lehmans-journal-reviews-9-april-2018\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Richard Lehman&#039;s journal reviews\u20149 April 2018 - 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