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Limited evidence suggest that assessment of muscle mass, indirect calorimetry, and careful monitoring of urea level may help guide nutrition therapy in older patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), according to a Singapore study. Other recommendations for general ICU patients may be used for those with sound clinical discretion.

Treatment with HTD1801, an ionic salt of berberine and ursodeoxycholic acid with pleiotropic mechanisms of action, appears to substantially improve outcomes in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), according to a study.

Subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) that qualify as clinically relevant cognitive impairments (CI) occur in a quarter of patients on haemodialysis (HD), according to a recent Singapore study. In turn, these complaints compromise patients’ treatment adherence and self-management.

People who have poor subjective health status are more likely to frequently visit acupuncture clinics, a recent study has found.

Exposure to acid suppressants during infancy may have adverse, long-term neurodevelopmental consequences in extremely preterm infants, as shown in a study.

To this day, diagnostic delay (DD) remains a problem since the first description of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) nearly 30 years ago, reveals a study. Notably, one-third of EoE patients suffer a persistently high DD of at least 10 years.