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Among patients with chronic coronary syndromes, those with higher serum uric acid (SUA) levels are more likely to have major adverse cardiovascular (CV) events (MACE) and worse related quality of life (QoL), as reported in a study.

That COVID-19 mostly spared children might be changing. The Delta variant has taken a severe, unthinkable toll on kids – at least in Arkansas, US, reports an expert at IDWeek 2021.

Exposure to environmental contaminants, particularly perfluorinated alkyl substances, seems to disrupt bile acid and lipid metabolism, both key hepatic metabolic pathways that are known to be dysregulated in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a recent study has found. Such an effect seems to be more pronounced in women.

Patients who receive sacubitril-valsartan after an acute myocardial infarction (MI) have a similar health status, as determined by EQ-5D visual analog scale (VAS) score, compared with those who receive ramipril, according to results of a prespecified analysis of the PARADISE-MI trial presented at HFSA 2021.

Men with depression appear to have poor semen quality parameters, including volume, concentration, count, and motility, a study has found. Furthermore, the association between depression and semen quality does not seem to be mediated by oxidative stress.

Survivors of bacterial meningitis (BM) suffer from an impaired health-related quality of life (HRQOL), regardless of possible disability, a study using parents’ perceptions has concluded.