In 2022, over 77 percent of U.S. adults were affected by obesity, at least one chronic condition, or both, and that number rose to 99 percent among adults aged 80 and older. A new research findings ...

Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) prescription stimulant misuse is associated with being under age 30, being White, and living in metropolitan areas, according to a new evidence ...

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) encourages innovative, ...

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) relies on AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program systematic reviews to inform a number of guidelines advising best treatment practices for ...

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Antibiotics are often given to preterm and vulnerable newborns before infections are confirmed in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). In an article published in the Journal of Intensive Care ...

Just 7.3 percent of non-Hispanic Asian adults with a prior COVID-19 infection reported ever having Long COVID as of spring 2023, compared with 14.6 percent of non-Hispanic White adults. (Source: AHRQ ...

As of spring 2023, 9.8 percent of adults aged 18 to 34 with a prior COVID-19 infection reported having developed Long COVID, the lowest among any adult age group. Long COVID rates ranged from 13.5 ...

In 2020, adult hospitalizations for sickle cell and anemia resulted in the highest readmission rates among patients using public insurance, leading to 37.7 30-day readmissions for every 100 ...

Schizophrenia and alcohol-related disorders were among the top five conditions most commonly associated with readmissions among patients listed as self-pay or no charge, resulting in 18 and 18.7 ...

Emergency departments need to be more effective at coordinating the collection and use of “health-related social needs” information, a new AHRQ-funded study has found. The study, published in BMC ...

In 2021, 7.5 percent of Hispanic patients, 6.6 percent of Black patients, 6.2 percent of patients with an “other” or unknown race, and 4.0 percent of White patients experienced adverse inpatient ...