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People with poor health literacy appear to present with more coronary artery disease (CAD)-related risk factors at the index admission, a recent study has found.

Postoperative ileus (POI) may be reduced with acupuncture after gastrointestinal (GI) surgery, reports a recent meta-analysis. However, evidence supporting such an effect remains of poor quality, pointing to the need for further validation.

The invasiveness of ground-glass nodules (GGN) appears to be associated with their mean computed tomography (CT) value, a recent meta-analysis has found. This finding points to a potential prognostic value of CT scans in patients with GGNs.

Adding pembrolizumab to chemotherapy in the first-line setting significantly prolongs overall survival (OS) in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) whose tumours expressed programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) with a CPS* of ≥10, compared with chemotherapy alone, according to the KEYNOTE-355** trial.

A Nordic diet with a reduced protein content, when introduced in infancy before initiation of complementary feeding, appears to lead to healthier eating habits, according to results of the OTIS trial presented at ESPGHAN 2022.

Older admitted patients, especially women, appear to be at a higher risk of more severe falls during hospitalization, a recent study has found. Higher-severity falls are also more likely to occur during toileting or showering.

The association between inflammation and fat mass index (FMI) is positive in individuals without HIV and negative in those with HIV, suggesting that inflammation is potentially a driver of depleting energy reserves among treatment-naïve patients with HIV, a study has shown.