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Individuals with greater skeletal muscle mass (SMM) may have higher blood pressure (BP) and left ventricular mass index (LVMI), regardless of adiposity, reveals a study.

Frequent alcohol consumption coupled with unfavourable lifestyle profiles may significantly raise the risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) among current alcohol drinkers, according to a case–control study.

Use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) vs warfarin appears to increase the 1-year risk for stroke but lower the risk for myocardial infarction (MI) in Asian patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and mitral stenosis (MS), according to a study.

Hypertension and diabetes in midlife have been associated with increased risk of early-onset dementia, specifically the non-Alzheimer’s type, in a population-based case-control study.

The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines 2025 recommend angiotensin receptor–neprilysin inhibitor (ARNI) as step 2 or step 3 treatment, highlighting its role in hypertension management in patients with comorbidities, including cardiac hypertrophy, chronic kidney disease and heart failure. Data from clinical trials, including those conducted in Asians, support these recommendations.

Treatment of hypertension and hyperlipidaemia among adults with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome remains low, according to a US study. Moreover, only a few of the treated individuals achieve blood pressure (BP) or glycaemic control.

In patients who have undergone total hip or total knee arthroplasty, postoperative treatment with aspirin alone is as good as a strategy of using rivaroxaban followed by aspirin in terms of preventing symptomatic venous thromboembolism, with no significant difference in bleeding events, according to the EPCAT III trial.