The current issue of JAMA (2024)

Audio Highlights

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JAMA. 2024;332(1):e2318332. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.18332

• Audio: Behavioral Interventions for Obesity, BP Monitoring After Stroke, USPSTF on Fall Prevention, and more

An Adaptive Behavioral Intervention for Weight Loss Management: A Randomized Clinical Trial

BonnieSpring,PhD; Angela F.Pfammatter,PhD; LauraScanlan,BA; et al.

JAMA. 2024;332(1):21-30. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0821

This noninferiority randomized trial compares the effects of a wireless system designed to provide daily feedback on progress in lifestyle change and weight loss vs the same system with additional human coaching on weight change among people with overweight and obesity.

• Editorial

  Lifestyle Interventions for Obesity in the Era of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists

  Jamy D.Ard,MD; Kristina H.Lewis,MD; Justin B.Moore,PhD

  JAMA

Text Messages With Financial Incentives for Men With Obesity: A Randomized Clinical Trial

PatHoddinott,MB, BS, PhD; CatrionaO’Dolan,PhD; LisaMacaulay,PhD; et al.

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JAMA. 2024;332(1):31-40. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.7064

This randomized clinical trial assesses whether text messaging combined with financial incentives or text messages alone could help men with obesity lose weight at 12 months.

• Audio: Financial Incentives for Weight Loss in Men With Obesity

• Editorial

  Lifestyle Interventions for Obesity in the Era of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists

  Jamy D.Ard,MD; Kristina H.Lewis,MD; Justin B.Moore,PhD

  JAMA

Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring and Nurse Case Management in Black and Hispanic Patients With Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial

GbengaOgedegbe,MD; Jeanne A.Teresi,EdD, PhD; Stephen K.Williams,MD; et al.

JAMA. 2024;332(1):41-50. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.6609

This clinical trial compares the effectiveness of nurse case management plus home blood pressure telemonitoring (HBPTM) vs HBPTM alone in achieving greater systolic blood pressure reduction at 12 months and lower rate of stroke recurrence at 24 months among Black and Hispanic stroke survivors with uncontrolled hypertension.

Sex Differences in Primary Care–Based Chronic Kidney Disease Management

Jorge A.Rodriguez,MD; Sarah W.Chen,BS; ChenxiGao,MS; et al.

JAMA. 2024;332(1):72-74. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.8914

This retrospective study uses electronic health record data to investigate the sex differences in guideline-based management outcomes between male and female patients with chronic kidney disease.

Formulary Coverage of Brand-Name Adalimumab and Biosimilars Across Medicare Part D Plans

Matthew J.Klebanoff,MD; PengxiangLi,PhD; John K.Lin,MD, MSHP; et al.

JAMA. 2024;332(1):74-76. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.8917

This study examines formulary coverage of brand-name adalimumab and biosimilars across Medicare Part D plans.

Recommendation Statement

Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

US Preventive Services Task Force

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JAMA. 2024;332(1):51-57. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.8481

This 2024 Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends exercise interventions to prevent falls in community-dwelling adults 65 years or older who are at increased risk for falls (B recommendation) and that clinicians individualize the decision to offer multifactorial interventions to prevent falls in this population (C recommendation).

• Audio: USPSTF Recommendation: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

• Editorial

  Preventing Falls in Older Persons: Steps in the Right Direction

  David B.Reuben,MD; David A.Ganz,MD, PhD

  JAMA

  • Audio: USPSTF Recommendation: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Evidence Report

Interventions to Prevent Falls in Older Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force

Janelle M.Guirguis-Blake,MD; Leslie A.Perdue,MPH; Erin L.Coppola,MPH; et al.

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JAMA. 2024;332(1):58-69. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.4166

This systematic review to support a 2024 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement summarizes published evidence on the benefits and harms of primary care–relevant multifactorial and exercise interventions to prevent falls among community-dwelling adults 65 years or older.

• Audio: USPSTF Recommendation: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

• Editorial

  Preventing Falls in Older Persons: Steps in the Right Direction

  David B.Reuben,MD; David A.Ganz,MD, PhD

  JAMA

  • Audio: USPSTF Recommendation: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Is Weight Loss–Induced Muscle Mass Loss Clinically Relevant?

CaterinaConte,MD, PhD; Kevin D.Hall,PhD; SamuelKlein,MD

JAMA. 2024;332(1):9-10. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.6586

This Viewpoint explores the effects of weight loss achieved through GLP-1–based antiobesity medications on weight regain, fat-free mass, and skeletal muscle mass in people with obesity.

Failure to Rescue as a Quality Measure in Sepsis

Stephanie ParksTaylor,MD, MS; MarcKowalkowski,PhD

JAMA. 2024;332(1):11-12. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.6771

This Viewpoint discusses the limitations of current tools to improve sepsis outcomes and proposes that these tools be supplemented with “failure to rescue,” a systems-level approach for recognizing and addressing complications and managing sepsis throughout the hospitalization period.

Health and the 2024 Elections Globally

Public Health Crisis in Gaza—The Responsibility of US-Based Academic Medical Journals

NadirIjaz,MD; Anand R.Habib,MD, MPhil

JAMA. 2024;332(1):13-14. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10766

In this Viewpoint, the authors write that US-based medical journals have an obligation to create space for discourse about the human costs of war and other political drivers of health.

Coming Home

CarolynBoscia,MD

JAMA. 2024;332(1):15. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.7515

In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician channels James Herriott as she attempts to save a hatchling in the basem*nt with nonsterile equipment while her young daughters look on.

Lifestyle Interventions for Obesity in the Era of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists

Jamy D.Ard,MD; Kristina H.Lewis,MD; Justin B.Moore,PhD

JAMA. 2024;332(1):16-18. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.7062

Preventing Falls in Older Persons: Steps in the Right Direction

David B.Reuben,MD; David A.Ganz,MD, PhD

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JAMA. 2024;332(1):19-20. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.9063

• Audio: USPSTF Recommendation: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Health Care for People Experiencing Homelessness

Maria Y.Patanwala,MD; Cheyenne M.Garcia,BA; MargotKushel,MD

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JAMA. 2024;332(1):70-71. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.5213

This JAMA Insights examines the adverse effects of homelessness on physical and mental health and suggests strategies to improve access to health care, services, and housing for people experiencing homelessness.

• Audio: Homelessness and Health Care

Evidence Mounts That About 7% of US Adults Have Had Long COVID

ZhengyiFang,MS; RebeccaAhrnsbrak,MPS; AndyRekito,MS

JAMA. 2024;332(1):5-6. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.11370

This Medical News article discusses new US household survey data that found differences in long COVID rates based on preexisting chronic conditions and other factors.

Flavored Vapes Might Expose Users to Hundreds of Dangerous Byproducts

EmilyHarris

JAMA. 2024;332(1):7. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10326

CDC: Deaths From Drowning Climb in the US

EmilyHarris

JAMA. 2024;332(1):7. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10327

WHO Releases Guidance to Reduce Catheter-Associated Infections

EmilyHarris

JAMA. 2024;332(1):7. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10328

Adding Salt to Food at Mealtime Associated With Stomach Cancer Risk

EmilyHarris

JAMA. 2024;332(1):7. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10329

Receiving Abortion Medication Through Mail Was Safe, Effective

EmilyHarris

JAMA. 2024;332(1):7. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10330

Self-Monitoring and Managing Medications Improved High Blood Pressure

EmilyHarris

JAMA. 2024;332(1):7-8. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10331

Ultraprocessed Food Associated With Small Increase in Mortality

EmilyHarris

JAMA. 2024;332(1):8. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10332

Poll: Roughly 12% of US Adults Have Used a GLP-1 Drug, Even If Unaffordable

EmilyHarris

JAMA. 2024;332(1):8. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10333

Meta-Analysis: Low Testosterone in Men Tied to Increased Risk of Death

EmilyHarris

JAMA. 2024;332(1):8. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.10334

Sick Day Abecedarian

RachelMorgan,MFA

JAMA. 2024;332(1):80. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.7082

Editorials

JAMA. 2024;332(1):81. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.18333

Prevention of Falls in Older Adults

JillJin,MD, MPH

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JAMA. 2024;332(1):84. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.9713

This JAMA Patient Page describes risk of falls in older adults and fall prevention recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force.

• Audio: USPSTF Recommendation: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

• Editorial

  Preventing Falls in Older Persons: Steps in the Right Direction

  David B.Reuben,MD; David A.Ganz,MD, PhD

  JAMA

  • Audio: USPSTF Recommendation: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Medical Management vs Bariatric Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes

TakeshiFujieda,MD

JAMA. 2024;332(1):76. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.8849

Medical Management vs Bariatric Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes—Reply

Anita P.Courcoulas,MD; Mary ElizabethPatti,MD; John P.Kirwan,PhD

JAMA. 2024;332(1):76-77. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.8852

ADHD Pharmacotherapy and Mortality

AlvinRichards-Belle,BSc; NaomiLaunders,PhD; Joseph F.Hayes,PhD

JAMA. 2024;332(1):77. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.8922

ADHD Pharmacotherapy and Mortality

PaulZarkowski,MD

JAMA. 2024;332(1):77-78. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.8925

ADHD Pharmacotherapy and Mortality—Reply

LinLi,PhD; HenrikLarsson,PhD; ZhengChang,PhD

JAMA. 2024;332(1):78-79. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.8928

JAMA

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JAMA. 2024;332(1):3-4. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.18331