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Patients with diabetes show high levels of acceptance and ability to adopt self-testing of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) despite facing issues in the insertion of test cartridges into the analyser, reports a study. Patients also express willingness to do self-testing in the future if such a service is available.

Off-label pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)-targeted drugs may increase long-term survival in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), as shown in a study.

Outpatients with post-COVID condition (PCC) generally tolerated exercise without significant worsening of symptoms or decline in aerobic performance after 48 hours. However, they had lower muscle strength and aerobic capacity than controls, and even showed signs of POTS* and myopathy in a randomized crossover trial.

People diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) face a worse prognosis if they also have untreated or complicated diabetes mellitus (DM), according to a study.

Lung ultrasound (LUS), a low-cost tool with a high negative predictive value, can be a useful instrument for dismissing the presence of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), suggests a study.

Supplementation with virgin coconut oil (VCO) helped alleviate symptoms and inflammation in individuals with COVID-19, as shown in a single-blind study.