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Only a minority of patients are considered fully recovered 1 year after being discharged from hospital due to COVID-19, with women and obese individuals at increased risk of long COVID, according to results of the prospective PHOSP-COVID* study presented at ECCMID 2022 and published in The Lancet.

Ischaemic stroke patients with high serum glucose-to-potassium ratio (GPR) upon admission see significantly excess 30-day mortality risk, a recent study has found. GPR may be a valuable predictor for short-term death in this patient population.

A recent study has demonstrated the importance of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms as a clinical morbidity and that these symptoms are associated with increasing age, duration of type 1 diabetes (T1D), haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and microvascular complications, but not with autoimmune comorbidities including coeliac disease (CD).

In the treatment of paediatric alopecia areata (AA), an autoimmune, nonscarring hair loss disorder with a variable disease course and significant psychosocial impact, the most preferred first-line agent is topical corticosteroids, followed by contact immunotherapy, according to a study.

Young, premenopausal women with long or irregular menstrual cycles are at an increased risk of both prevalent and incident nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), reveals a study.

Preoperative radiotherapy (preop RT), followed by skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap reconstruction, is technically feasible and safe in breast cancer patients who require mastectomy, the PRADA* trial suggests.