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SARS-CoV-2 infection puts individuals at increased risk of developing diabetes, contributing to between 3 percent and 5 percent excess burden of diabetes at a population level, as reported in a study.

Screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with a reduction in the risk of stroke in individuals with a high NT-proBNP* level, according to a post hoc analysis of the LOOP study.

For patients with recurrent, complicated, or persistent painful diverticulitis, elective sigmoid resection appears to prevent recurrence as well as improve quality of life (QOL) within 2 years as compared with conservative treatment, according to the results of an open-label trial.

The implementation of a coordinated, multifaceted intervention helps increase the prescription of three groups of evidence-based cardiopreventive therapies in adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to a study.

The survival benefit derived from using immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) is more evident in patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who received first-line therapy, showed low neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and had no history of hormone use following initial treatment, suggests a recent study.