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Patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection who consume high levels of alcohol are at increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), as suggested in a retrospective study from China.

Among people living with HIV who are initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART), those with obesity potentially face a higher long-term risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, or death, according to an observational study.

Some biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism are associated with toxicities induced by chemotherapy in patients with stage II‒III colorectal cancer (CRC), suggests a study.

Measurements of rituximab serum concentration are predictive of future drug concentrations associated with early B-cell repopulation in children with inflammatory diseases, suggests a study.

A hearing aid intervention does little to reduce the incidence of dementia-level impairment in older adults with coexisting hearing loss and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), as shown in the CHOICE trial.

Cytological analysis of voided urine and vaginal fluid has good accuracy for detecting endometrial cancer in women with postmenopausal bleeding, as shown in the DETECT trial.

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients with positive anti-RNA polymerase III (ARA) prior to autologous haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) show a reduced risk of relapse, reveals a study. Moreover, no association has been observed between post-HCT autoantibodies and relapse risk.

A combined intrahepatic (IH) and periduodenal (PD) embolization strategy results in higher initial response rates and longer duration of remission compared with IH embolization alone in congenital heart disease (CHD) patients with protein-losing enteropathy (PLE), a study has shown.

An association exists between daily glucocorticoid (GC) dose and worse patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who have achieved Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS), even after adjustments for potential confounders, according to a study.