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A Singapore hospital has pioneered a tailored peritoneal dialysis (PD) training program that has yielded a significant reduction in PD-related infections and dropouts among patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).

Children with subperiosteal abscesses (SAs) in the long bones are more likely to have subsequent complications than those with SAs in flat bones, suggests a study.

In the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME) in the subgroup of patients with baseline best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 20/50 or worse, the bispecific antibody faricimab has been shown to improve visual acuity as much as the anti-VEGF aflibercept, with the added advantage of a greater decrease in retinal thickness and reduced injection frequency.

Electrolyte abnormalities within 1 year of eating disorder diagnosis are associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality, a population-based study in Canada has shown.

The proportion of Hong Kong’s population with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome has increased from 87.8 percent 20 years ago to 90.8 percent in 2024, an ongoing population-based, cross-sectional study of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and disease prevalence in Hong Kong Chinese (N-CRISPS) has found.

Patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia do not appear to be protected against type 2 diabetes (T2D), which markedly increases in the presence of obesity, according to a worldwide cross-sectional study.