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Quality of care for heart failure (HF) patients varies, with substantial gaps among Asians compared with non-Hispanic Whites, reports a US study.

The addition of hormone therapy, either short- or long-term, to postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) offers no survival advantage over PORT alone in prostate cancer, especially for men with very low pre-PORT prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, according to the POSEIDON study.

Individuals exposed to maternal smoking during infancy show an increased risk of incident irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), while those exposed to lactation display a reduced risk, reveals a study.

Patients with severe asthma who receive long-term treatment with dupilumab in real-world settings see sustained improvements in clinical and patient outcomes, with most achieving remission after 2 years, according to interim data of the ProVENT study.

In patients with uncontrolled hypertension and cardiometabolic comorbidities, renal denervation appears to improve hepatic steatosis, according to a small study.

Peak oxygen consumption (pVO2) in patients with nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is reduced following treatment with the beta-blocker bisoprolol but remains unchanged with the calcium-channel blocker verapamil, reports a study.

Treatment with either metformin or ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) falls short of improving recovery from postacute sequalae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), a study has shown.