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A 12-week nurse-led e-health cardiac rehabilitation (NeCR) programme run on a website and a social media chat room effectively modifies behavioural risk factors and improves health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Chinese patients hospitalized for coronary heart disease (CHD), researchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong have reported.

Cancer patients receiving either low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) or direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) show comparable frequency of venous thromboembolism (VTE), reports a recent study.

The combination of aspirin and warfarin therapy appears to increase the risk of bleeding, with little benefit in reducing stroke or cardiovascular events compared with warfarin alone in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), reveals a study.

Hypertension and diabetes are the major predictors of stroke that must be controlled and treated like other global high-risk populations for stroke prevention, according to a prospective study in India.

Higher intake of marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) exerts no significant protective effect against incident peripheral artery disease (PAD), a recent study has found.