This Indian study demonstrated telmisartan to be efficacious and tolerable for BP control in Indian hypertension patients when used as monotherapy or in combination therapy. The benefits of telmisartan were independent of age, duration, and stages of hypertension.

Recent findings suggested that preoperative BMI reduction in morbidly obese patients may not necessarily mitigate post-TKA complications, while delaying surgery could potentially be detrimental. Analyzing 1,270 TKA patients with BMI ≥ 40, those achieving ≥ 5% BMI reduction did not show reduced 90-day complication rates vs. those with unchanged BMI. Patients with a BMI increase of ≥ 5% faced higher complication risks.

A large population-based study underscored the imperative for long-term cardiovascular (CV) monitoring in COVID-19 survivors. Researchers found a 34% higher risk of major adverse CV events in those with prior COVID-19 infection vs. unexposed individuals, with escalated risk among hospitalized (3.81-fold increase) & ICU-admitted (6.25-fold increase) patients. SARS-CoV-2 infection contributed to 7% of incident CV event...