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Patients with COVID-19 who also have an autoimmune (AI) disease are not at increased risk of intensive care unit (ICU) admission, intubation, or death compared to controls, a study has found.

Are COVID-19 patients with autoimmune disease at higher risk of adverse outcomes?

How effective are blue-light filtering IOLs in preventing nAMD?

Use of a blue-light filtering (BLF) intraocular lens (IOL) does not offer any clear advantage over a non-BLF IOL in the incidence of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) or its progression, nor in clinical variables associated with nAMD severity, among patients who underwent cataract surgery, results of a study have shown.

How effective are blue-light filtering IOLs in preventing nAMD?

Margetuximab bests trastuzumab in advanced breast cancer

Adding margetuximab – a novel chimeric Fc-engineered anti-ERBB2* antibody – to single-agent chemotherapy (CT) yielded better survival benefit and favourable safety compared with the trastuzumab-CT regimen for women with pretreated ERRB2-positive advanced breast cancer (ERRB2+ ABC), according to the initial results of the phase III SOPHIA trial.

Margetuximab bests trastuzumab in advanced breast cancer

Machine learning parses accelerometer data to detect T2D

Using free-living physical activity data from wrist-worn accelerometers, machine learning algorithms can be trained to differentiate people type 2 diabetes (T2D) from those with normal glucose levels, according to a recent study.

Machine learning parses accelerometer data to detect T2D

High TG/HDL-C variability tied to diabetes risk

High variability in the ratio between triglycerides and high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (TG/HDL-C) seems to increase the risk of incident diabetes, a China study has shown.

High TG/HDL-C variability tied to diabetes risk

Dysmenorrhea may contribute to increased chronic pain risk

A recent study suggests that dysmenorrhea is a possible risk factor for chronic pain development among menstruating women.

Dysmenorrhea may contribute to increased chronic pain risk

Predictors of main bleeding following ticagrelor

In patients with acute coronary syndrome who underwent coronary stent implantation, the incidence of major bleeding after ticagrelor therapy is associated with low body weight, anaemia, and chronic kidney disease, a study reports.

Predictors of main bleeding following ticagrelor

At least 7-week delay in surgery recommended after COVID-19 diagnosis

Surgery should be delayed for ≥7 weeks, if possible, in patients found to have preoperative severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection due to the increased risk of postoperative mortality observed in patients who underwent surgery within 6 weeks after diagnosis of the infection.

At least 7-week delay in surgery recommended after COVID-19 diagnosis

Sarcopoenia tied to metabolic syndrome risk

Bioelectrical impedance analysis-defined sarcopoenia appears to be an indicator of the risk of metabolic syndrome, a recent study has shown.

Sarcopoenia tied to metabolic syndrome risk

Early-life sugar, sugary drinks intake in adolescence may promote adenoma

High intake of simple sugars and sugar-sweetened beverages during adolescence appears to contribute to an increased risk of conventional adenoma, especially rectal adenoma, a study has found.

Early-life sugar, sugary drinks intake in adolescence may promote adenoma