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To the Editor We write to explain an analytical error in our Research Letter titled “Trends in Obesity Prevalence Among Adults Aged 18 Through 25 Years, 1976-2018,” published in the November 23/30, 2021, issue of JAMA. This study looked at trends in body mass index (BMI) among young adults aged 18 to 25 years using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Stroke, Volume 54, Issue Suppl_1, Page ANS1-ANS1, February 1, 2023. Background:Post-stroke depression (PSD) affects up to one-third of stroke survivors and remains under-recognized. The optimal time for PSD screening seems to be about 30-45 days post-stroke. However, screening and follow up remains insufficient.Methods:Our stroke certified registered nurse contacted stroke patients admitted to Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles in 2021 to assess depression within 30-45 days post discharge using the Patient Health Questionnaire Screening Tool (PHQ9). Two call attempts were made. Based on the PHQ9 scores, patients were referred to different clinical care pathways. Patients who scored10-19 were referred to depression care management (DCM), while 20 and above were referred to psychiatry directly. We collected the demographics, stroke types and discharge disposition inpatients who were lost to follow up and patients who completed the follow up. Data were analyzed using R-Statistics.Results:Among 92 patients, 41 (45%) had follow-up depression screening completed; 13 (32%)received psychiatry referral given severity of depression, and 28 (68%) received a depression care management referral. Of 51 patients who did not complete follow-up screening, 27 (53%)declined to participate in screening, while 22 (43%) could not be reached. Patients who did not receive follow-up screening were older (P=0.02). Race, gender, discharge mRS or length of acute hospital stay did not have a significant effect on patient’s depression screening follow-up status. Patients discharged home with home health showed a trend for better completed follow-ups despite not reaching statistical significance (P=0.07).Conclusion:Raising awareness about the necessity of depression screening and its treatment is of utmost importance for reaching optimal recovery and rehabilitation potential in stroke patients. Post-discharge follow-up and education can be implemented to narrow the PSD recognition gap.

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Timely access to scientific research findings for the broadest possible audience is a principle on which sound science is based. Access to new findings helps other scientists adjust their hypotheses and open new lines of inquiry, thereby supporting and accelerating further discovery and innovation. For those who rely on newly generated evidence to develop policies and define practices that improve medicine and public health, rapid and equitable access is critical. The principle of broad access is a cornerstone of transparency, reinforces rigor and reproducibility, and ultimately, is critical to all stakeholders’ trust in science.

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Timely access to scientific research findings for the broadest possible audience is a principle on which sound science is based. Access to new findings helps other scientists adjust their hypotheses and open new lines of inquiry, thereby supporting and accelerating further discovery and innovation. For those who rely on newly generated evidence to develop policies and define practices that improve medicine and public health, rapid and equitable access is critical. The principle of broad access is a cornerstone of transparency, reinforces rigor and reproducibility, and ultimately, is critical to all stakeholders’ trust in science.

Timely access to scientific research findings for the broadest possible audience is a principle on which sound science is based. Access to new findings helps other scientists adjust their hypotheses and open new lines of inquiry, thereby supporting and accelerating further discovery and innovation. For those who rely on newly generated evidence to develop policies and define practices that improve medicine and public health, rapid and equitable access is critical. The principle of broad access is a cornerstone of transparency, reinforces rigor and reproducibility, and ultimately, is critical to all stakeholders’ trust in science.

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“I find that I cannot exist without poetry” proclaimed John Keats, the beloved English Romantic poet who many forget was trained as a physician. Keats practiced medicine for only 7 years before abandoning the profession. The medicine of his day, in early 19th-century London, faced dire challenges we might recognize as not unlike those of our times: long work hours, inadequate resources, harmful superstition and widespread misinformation, rampant and frequently fatal infectious disease. Keats himself would eventually succumb to tuberculosis as a young man aged only 25. Surely such onerous work conditions contributed to his defection from the hospital and propelled him toward the poetry he imagined could be healing, even as he suspected that he was slowly dying from the dread consumption whose symptoms his letters show he knew all too well.