Bottom reached in restrictive blood transfusion policy The trend in hospitals and guidelines is to be more and more cautious with blood transfusions. Due to side effects associated with blood transfusion and the increasing scarcity and costs of blood products. For example, in recent years the number of patients receiving a transfusion during their ICU admission has halved. Researchers from Amsterdam UMC, in collaboration with eight other Dutch hospitals and funded ZonMW, have shown that being increasingly restrictive in preventive blood transfusion is not, in all cases, understandable. The results of this study are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Gender-affirming hormone therapy reduces psychological distress in transgender people Gender-affirming hormone therapy reduces depressive symptoms and psychological distress in transgender people, according to a systematic review of research in this field. The study, led by Amsterdam UMC and the University of Exeter, reviewed 46 relevant journal articles and is published today in Nature Human Behaviour.
Cardiovascular diseases affect everyone, but not equallyFor the last ten years, Amsterdam UMC's has studied more than 25,000 residents of Amsterdam in order to discover the genetic differences in various illnesses. High blood pressure is one of the health problems that leads to cardiovascular illnesses.
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