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The proportion of Hong Kong’s population with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome has increased from 87.8 percent 20 years ago to 90.8 percent in 2024, an ongoing population-based, cross-sectional study of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and disease prevalence in Hong Kong Chinese (N-CRISPS) has found.

Patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia do not appear to be protected against type 2 diabetes (T2D), which markedly increases in the presence of obesity, according to a worldwide cross-sectional study.

Shortening the postenucleation chemotherapy regimen containing carboplatin, etoposide, and vincristine (CEV) from six to three cycles results in comparable survival outcomes in paediatric patients with unilateral pathologic high-risk retinoblastoma, according to new research.

A shorter time to culture positivity, osteoarticular infection, and higher presenting and peak values for some inflammatory markers appear predictive of persistent S. aureus bacteremia (SAB) in children, suggests a study.

Fathers who use metformin during the period of sperm development does not seem to contribute to congenital malformations in their children, a study has shown.

Individuals with either active or quiescent ulcerative colitis (UC) commonly experience abdominal pain, which is associated with active disease, female sex, and psychological symptoms and contributes to lower quality of life (QoL), as reported in a study.

Children with prenatal exposure to cannabis appears to have poorer executive function and more aggressive behaviour, according to a study.

During pregnancy, high levels of maternal fasting plasma glucose (FPG) trajectories appear to contribute to refractive error, hypermetropia, and astigmatism in children at 6 years of age, reveals a recent study.