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Gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia were associated with an increased risk of new-onset migraine, headache, epilepsy, sleep disorder, or mental fatigue within months to years after giving birth, a Swedish study found.

Vitamin D may protect against young-onset ischaemic stroke through preventing atrial fibrillation (AF), a University of Hong Kong (HKU) study on Southern Chinese has found. 

Vulnerable or frail patients who received physical prehabilitation, compared with those who received usual care, had clinically meaningful decrease in disability scores at 90 days after cardiac surgery, a Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) study found.

Using dapagliflozin and metformin together is well-tolerated and does not appear to cause additional safety concerns, according to a study involving Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) treated in routine clinical setting.

A screening method that integrates Raman spectroscopy (RS) with machine learning appears promising for the early detection and subtyping of breast cancer using blood plasma samples.

For patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) who are scheduled to undergo ileocolonic resection, initiating vedolizumab treatment promptly after the procedure has the potential to prevent recurrence, according to the results of the REPREVIO study.

Lipid-lowering drugs appear to exert a beneficial effect on age-related macular degeneration (AMD) but only in the presence of the rs1061170 genetic variant located in the CFH gene, as shown in a Singapore study.