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The risk of developing long COVID is high among women, hypertensives, and those with a higher number of initial symptoms, and these associations are independent of disease severity and clinical course, a study has found.

Whole-exome sequencing (WES) can improve diagnosis rates in young colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who show no pathogenic variants in mismatch repair (MMR) genes or in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene, reports a recent study.

Patients diagnosed with COVID-19 could have an increased risk of certain conditions up to 120 days post-diagnosis, a finding which could help establish the definition of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC), according to a study presented at CROI 2022.

Imaging-based surveillance techniques may miss hallmarks of progression in high-risk individuals presenting with high-grade dysplasia or pancreatic cancer, suggesting a need for more sensitive tools, a recent study has found.

Among advanced hepatocellular carcinoma patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), the occurrence of multisystem and more severe immune-related adverse events is a favourable signal, being associated with survival advantage, according to a Singapore study.

Severe hypoglycaemia may contribute to a higher risk of incident heart failure (HF) among adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D), reports a study.

Immunocompromised patients, particularly those who had undergone organ transplants, show markedly lower seroconversion rates after vaccination against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a recent Singapore meta-analysis.