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Sarcopoenia is a strong and independent predictor of mortality risk in cirrhotic patients, reveals a recent meta-analysis.

Trastuzumab plus endocrine therapy is just as effective as the combination of trastuzumab plus chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of Chinese patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) harbouring hormone receptor (HR) or HER2 mutation, with the added advantage of better tolerability, according to the results of the phase III SYSUCC-002 trial.

Regular use of a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker (CCB) results in a 2-mm Hg decrease in visit-to-visit blood pressure variability (vvBPV), according to the results of a post hoc analysis of the SPRINT trial.

Maintaining a change in diet from a typical to an optimized one from an early age can extend life expectancy (LE) by more than a decade, suggests a study. Such gain drops significantly with delayed initiation of dietary changes, particularly when approaching the age of 80 years.

Men and women who work long hours have higher blood pressure levels compared with their counterparts who work 35–40 hours per week, a study reports.

Female pattern hair loss appears to be highly common among postmenopausal women, which brings to fore the need to increase awareness of such a condition in menopause clinics, according to a study.

Higher levels of serum apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1) and lower levels of apolipoprotein B (ApoB) correlate with lower glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) in adults, a recent China study has found.