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A moderately restricted carbohydrate diet (MRCD) appears to yield favourable effects on several cardiometabolic risk factors, including weight and serum triglyceride, in women with metabolic syndrome (MetS), according to a study.

A cross-sectional study of 523 adolescents finds a 17.1 percent and 10.9 percent prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) and ID with anaemia (IDA), respectively, among girls in Hong Kong.

Treatment with phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors (PDE5i) may provide survival benefits to patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD)-related pulmonary hypertension (PH), particularly in those with severe disease and normal baseline right ventricular (RV) dysfunction, suggest the results of a retrospective observational cohort study.

A recent study has provided further evidence on the incidence of central nervous system (CNS) coccidioidomycosis, which is a rare and potentially dangerous complication of disseminated coccidioidomycosis. Many patients present with relatively low compliment fixation (CF) titer, and hydrocephalus often occurs.