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Late intubation compounds the risk of death among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients on mechanical intubation due to respiratory insufficiency, a recent study has found.

Nephrolithiasis appears to be common among people with disabilities (PWDs), such that one in three people who have the kidney stone disease is a PWD, as reported in a study from the US.

Altered measures of the coagulation parameters, specifically high international normalised ratio and low haemoglobin, in the third trimester of pregnancy among women with severe anaemia appear to contribute to an increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage, a study has found.

Neither gastric cancer nor gastric dysplasia is seen in patients with corpus atrophic gastritis (CAG) characterized at baseline with corpus pseudopyloric metaplasia (PPM) without corpus intestinal metaplasia (IM) because such lesions are consistently associated with corpus IM, reports a study.

The antimigraine medications dihydroergotamine (DHE) and triptan seem to aggravate the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as premature birth and spontaneous abortion (SA), a recent study has found.

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) appear to be beneficial to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, with a recent study suggesting that the use of such drugs may slow down progression of emphysema and lung function decline.