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Association of waist circumference with all-cause and cardiovascular mortalities in diabetes from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2018

Waist circumference (WC) is closely associated with metabolic diseases, including diabetes mellitus (DM), metabolic syndrome, and mortality. However, the correlation between WC and mortality varies across populations and has rarely…

Women with endometriosis at greater associated risk of heart attack and stroke #ESCCongress #ESC24 #ESC2024

According to research presented at ESC Congress 2024 in London,1 women with endometriosis have a 20% greater risk of significant cardiac outcomes compared with women without endometriosis. β€œFor decades, cardiovascular…

The antiviral tecovirimat is safe but did not improve Clade I #mpox resolution in Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC

The antiviral drug tecovirimat did not reduce the duration of mpox lesions among children and adults with clade I mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), based on…

Greater attention needs to be paid to malnutrition in the sick and elderly. New England Journal of Medicine

As many as half of all patients admitted to hospital and other healthcare facilities are malnourished. This has serious consequences for the individual in terms of unnecessary suffering, poorer quality…

Dramatic declines in global fertility rates. The Lancet

The world is approaching a low-fertility future. Although by 2100 more than 97% of countries and territories will have fertility rates below what is necessary to sustain population size over…