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Pregnant women with thyroiditis may do well with selenium supplementation, which confers benefits for autoantibody titre during pregnancy and thyroiditis recurrence postpartum, as shown in a study.
A simulation training for plastic surgery is effective in improving the skills and perceptions among undergraduate medical students, a recent study reports.
Intestinal ultrasound is useful in monitoring disease course and evaluating short-term treatment response in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and may serve as a viable point-of-care tool in general practice, according to data from the TRUST&UC* study.
Children and adolescents who are overweight or obese tend to have elevated biochemical markers of liver damage, a study has shown. Moreover, variations in paediatric normal values of liver enzymes exist across age and sex groups.
The risk of worse maternal and neonatal events tends to be higher among women with rheumatic arthritis (RA), while such risk is similar between women with and without spondyloarthritis (SpA), a recent study has shown.
Hyponatraemia during admission for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) necessitates higher doses of the diuretic furosemide, reports a recent study.
Short-term, reading-to-reading ambulatory blood pressure (BP) variability appears to be associated with total and cardiovascular mortality among individuals with hypertension, according to data from the Spanish ABPM Registry.
In states where cannabis is legal, exposure to marketing materials, particularly through social media, is associated with recent cannabis use in adolescents, reports a recent study.
The substitution of proline-12 to alanine (Pro12Ala) in the proliferator-activated receptorγ2 gene (PPARγ2) appears to be protective against albuminuria and diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, a new study has found.
Reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels may cut the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events in type 2 diabetes patients with metabolic dyslipidaemia, a recent study has shown.
