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A mobile health intervention combining a smartphone app, a smart band, and counseling offers benefits in terms of weight loss, body composition variables, and time spent in light physical activity compared to counseling alone at 3 months among sedentary adults with overweight or obesity, results of the Evident 3 Study have shown.

Treatment with nonvitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) results in lower risks of diabetes complications and mortality compared with warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and diabetes mellitus (DM), suggest a study.

Patients with non-severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who have worse glycaemic status are more likely to deteriorate clinically, but glycaemic status does not adversely impact neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses, researchers from the University of Hong Kong have shown.

Women with laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis appear to have an elevated risk of early natural menopause (ENM), a recent prospective study has shown.

Dietary patterns with higher glycaemic index (GI) and glycaemic load (GL) appear to elevate the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, according to a study on Chinese adults.

Overweight or obese patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) may gain health benefits from a low free sugar diet, results of a trial have shown. Such diet helps reduce hepatic steatosis and fibrosis, as well as improve glycaemic indices and lower concentrations of biomarkers of inflammation, triglycerides (TG), and total cholesterol (TC) levels.