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In the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension, switching from a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor to the sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor luseogliflozin appears to have favourable effects on blood pressure (BP), circadian rhythm, and night-time systolic BP (SBP) and pulse rate (PR), according to data from the open-label LUNA trial.

The addition of corticosteroids (ie, prednisolone) to NSAID eyedrops (ie, ketorolac) did not provide additional benefit relative to ketorolac alone or dropless surgery using a sub-Tenon capsule depot as an anti-inflammatory prophylactic regimen to prevent postoperative central macular thickening following uncomplicated cataract surgery, a Danish study suggests.

Long-term medical therapy in patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) is held back by dose-dependent side effects, according to a recent Singapore study.

The use of Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) IRIS plaques is an effective treatment approach to iris, iridociliary, and ciliary body melanoma, a recent study has found.

High-flowrate air samplers are able to detect airborne SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals, outperforming even surface sampling, according to a recent Singapore study. Factors such as the site of deployment and distance of the air samplers from patients affect the viral load detected.

COVID-19 does not appear to result in long-term impairment of lung function in children and adolescents, according to two studies presented at ERS 2021.