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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.

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.

Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension treated with sotatercept demonstrate improved exercise tolerance, driven in part by increased haemoglobin, according to a study.