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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Data showed carbon fiber insoles and polyethylene shoe insoles were associated with improved patient-reported pain scores in patients with plantar fasciitis.

PHILADELPHIA — A woman’s reproductive history, including the timing of menarche, menopause and any pregnancy complications, may reveal short- and long-term cardiometabolic and cardiovascular risk trajectories, according to a speaker.

Compared with patients with type 2 MI or takotsubo syndrome, those with type 1 MI had higher in-hospital mortality rates, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Results published in JAMA Surgery showed use of cervical spine imaging for pediatric patients with blunt trauma has increased despite wide variability in clinical evaluation, which could lead to the potential for overdiagnosis of injuries.

Patients with cancer experienced a greater burden of COVID-19-associated mortality during the winter Omicron wave than the general U.S. population, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

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Blood tests showed that canagliflozin plus standard care lowered biomarkers levels associated with chronic kidney disease and CVD events in patients with diabetes and albuminuria vs. placebo, researchers reported.

Continuous hemodynamic evaluation of tissue perfusion pressure may provide unique insights to guide clinical care of patients with circulatory shock and predict adverse in-hospital outcomes, researchers reported.

Adults with overweight or obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease had a more than 5% reduction in liver fat at 6 months with growth hormone therapy, according to findings from a randomized controlled trial.

Midlife women aged 45 years or older with a history of infertility were more likely to experience menopausal symptoms than women without infertility, according to secondary analysis results published in Menopause.