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Study reveals other smoking cessation aids are tied to more successful quits

In high polygenic risk score group, ideal versus poor LS7 linked to 20.2 more years free of coronary heart disease

Findings largely independent of blood pressure and type 2 diabetes

Score based on six clinical factors including no fever at time of admission, no history of pulmonary disease, high white blood cell count

Adherence to follow-up, blood pressure control better in those with remote BP monitoring, telehealth versus usual care

7.36 percent of patients had minor complications, mainly insertion site hematomas; 0.41 percent had major complications

Adjusted hazard ratios varied from 0.69 to 0.28 across increasing activity categories compared with 0 to 19 minutes/day

Almost all hospitalized COVID-19 patients with a bleeding event were receiving mechanical ventilation, full-dose anticoagulation

Rate of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage lower with tenecteplase than the current standard medication for thrombolysis, alteplase

Subgroup analysis indicates treatment efficacy differed with presence or absence of pulmonary vascular disease unmasked by exercise