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Paediatric chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with both daytime and nocturnal hypertension are at high risk of progressing to kidney replacement therapy, according to a study.

In middle-aged adults, gradual weight loss not accompanied by appropriate levels of physical activity may worsen the risk of cardiovascular disease, a recent Korea study has found.

Among the biochemical indices of obesity, cholesterol, creatinine, and platelet count appear to correlate with myocardial infarction or angina pectoris in both men and women, reports a recent study. Other indicators, including anthropometric measures, varied between sexes.

Treatment with remote ischaemic conditioning in adults with acute moderate ischaemic stroke appears to increase the chances of achieving excellent neurologic function at 90 days as compared with usual care, as shown in the results of an open-label, blinded-endpoint, randomized clinical trial.

People living with HIV (PLWH) are less likely to receive preventive cardiovascular (CV) care than non-HIV-infected patients, suggest the results of a study conducted in the same outpatient clinic.

People living with HIV (PLWH) are less likely to receive appropriate statin therapy for the prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), a study has found.

Children and teens who engage in more physical exercise are more likely to have favourable left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), regardless of the presence of hypertrophy at the time of assessment, reports a recent study.