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Cigarette smokers have an excess risk of heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), confirms a recent study. Additionally, those who quit smoking show a reduction in HF risk, but the risk persists for a few decades.

Internet searches related to depression or anxiety appear to be correlated with the population-wide burden of these mental health conditions, reports a recent US study.

Short-term tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibition with adalimumab falls short of producing improvements in patients with radiographic knee osteoarthritis, according to the proof-of-concept OKINADA trial presented at this year’s European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Congress.

Uncontrolled diabetes among older adults with preclinical heart failure (HF) stages appears to increase the risk of HF progression, suggests a study.