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Sublingual nitroglycerin reduced pulmonary capillary wedge pressure in patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction during exercise, but did not improve oxygen uptake or cardiac output, according to findings published in Circulation.

SAN DIEGO — A weekly glucagon/GLP-1 dual receptor agonist conferred greater weight loss than 1 mg semaglutide at 16 weeks among adults with type 2 diabetes, according to findings from a phase 2 trial.

Improving diversity in cancer clinical trial enrollment has become an increased priority among oncology researchers.

Direct oral anticoagulation in patients not previously indicated for it who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement was associated with increased mortality compared with antiplatelet therapy, researchers reported.

Oncology clinical trials appeared to recover from declines in enrollment and activation during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study of data from two large academic centers published in Annals of Oncology.

In a cohort of more than 400,000 patients at high risk for CVD requiring primary prevention, less than half were taking appropriately dosed statins and less than 10% were taking nonstatin lipid-lowering therapies, researchers reported.

Growing up, I had an aunt with rheumatoid arthritis. In those days, there were few effective treatments. By the time she was in her 40s, she was confined to a wheelchair. She died at age 54 from complications of the disease. This was in the 1960s, and there was little that doctors could do for her.

In an interview with Healio, Bonnie L. Bermas, MD, Dr. Morris Ziff Distinguished Professor in Rheumatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, discussed some of the challenges women of reproductive age with RA face, special considerations when planning pregnancy in this patient population, the importance of coordinating care and more.

In this video from ACR Convergence 2021, Kathryn Dao, MD, discusses a presentation based on a podcast, “Take a Pain Check,” for teenagers with rheumatic disease.

In this video from ACR Convergence 2021, Kathryn Dao, MD, spoke with Healio about a presentation that asked, “could RA be cured?”