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Trajectories of body roundness index (BRI) appear to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly among younger adults, suggests a study.

Use of tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) does not appear to contribute to incident hypertension in individuals with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), reports a study.

Following an episode of myocardial infarction (MI), patients with light or moderate alcohol consumption appear to have a lower risk of mortality than nondrinkers, according to a study.

Global wall motion score index (WMSI), as well as abnormalities in any of the left ventricular (LV) regional walls, is associated with the risk of incident heart failure (HF), reports a new study.

Stroke, a common cause of donor brain death, exhibits a substantially different effect on recipient and allograft survival depending on the age of the donor, suggests a recent study. Among younger donors, stroke contributes to increased recipient mortality and allograft failure than other causes of brain death.

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) does not seem to aggravate the likelihood of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in prostate cancer patients after curative radiotherapy (RT), according to a recent Singapore study.

Levels of the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 seem to be associated with psychosomatic symptoms in patients with heart failure (HF), reports a recent study.