Early sexual activity, often defined as initiation before 16, is a risky behaviour associated with many negative social and health outcomes. Sexual norms restricting sex till marriage have declined in ...

Background/aims The literature surrounding the relationship between obesity and glaucoma is conflicting. The aim of this ...

Background Aortic valve calcification (AVC) is a disease process driven by inflammation and lipid infiltration, serving as a ...

Background Cigarette sharing has not been assessed at the provincial level or analysed the degree of its association with smoking cessation in China. Such analysis would provide critical intelligence ...

Central retinal artery occlusion can result in permanent vision loss. Effective treatment is lacking. We conducted a phase 3, double-blind, double-dummy, randomized, controlled trial involving ...

Objective To help to clarify whether long term use of proton pump inhibitors is associated with an increased risk of gastric adenocarcinoma by designing a study that considered the existing literature ...

Background The long-term trajectories of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and their relation to early proteinuria ...

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of ambient artificial intelligence (AI) documentation tool adoption among US hospitals using Epic electronic health record (EHR) s ...

Conclusions This study suggests that a decrease in positive leadership behaviours has a hazardous effect on workers’ level of ...

Background Aortic stenosis (AS) frequently coexists with heart failure (HF), but its prevalence, prognostic impact and management across the full HF spectrum remain incompletely characterised. Methods ...