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Community-acquired severe pneumonia is more likely to develop in young boys and children with severe stunting, reports a recent study. Fever, illness duration, and a history of prior medical care are also important predictive factors for severe pneumonia.

Children born to mothers with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at higher risk of major mental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a recent Taiwan study has found. No such effect exists for paternal RA.

Patients successfully treated with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) show high knowledge about hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, a recent study has shown.

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) reduce hospitalization for heart failure (hHF) and all-cause death in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients without a history of cardiovascular disease, reports a new study.

Ophthalmologic procedures performed in an outpatient setting do not seem to heighten the risk for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), a study has shown.

Nonantibiotic treatment with methenamine hippurate shows high levels of efficacy in women with a history of recurrent episodes of urinary tract infection (UTI), which is comparable to the current guideline-recommended prophylaxes (ie, long-course, low-dose antibiotics), according to a study.

Antecedent use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) among older COVID-19 patients with hypertension results in fewer all-cause deaths, whether in-hospital or shortly after discharge, compared with no antecedent use of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors (RASIs), a study has shown.