JAMA Intern Med. 2026 Feb 23. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.8087. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIMPORTANCE: Dual bronchodilator therapy with a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) and a long-acting β2-agonist (LABA) is recommended for most patients with symptomatic chronic obstructive pulmonar
No abstractJAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2;9(2):e2558190. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.58190.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41729526 | DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.58190
JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2;9(2):e2560385. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.60385.ABSTRACTIMPORTANCE: Selection of patients with a bicuspid aortic valve and aortopathy for prophylactic aortic surgery remains challenging. In thoracic aortopathy, aortic medial elastin fiber fragmentation initially lea
JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2;9(2):e2560398. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.60398.ABSTRACTIMPORTANCE: Japan's family pharmacist system (FPS) has helped to prevent therapeutic duplication and drug interactions and to improve leftover drug adjustments. However, its association with lower risk of death
JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2;9(2):e2560422. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.60422.ABSTRACTIMPORTANCE: Unprotected left main percutaneous coronary intervention (LM PCI) is recognized as a reasonable strategy for patients who have coronary artery disease with low anatomic complexity. However, recent t
JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2;9(2):e2560429. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.60429.ABSTRACTIMPORTANCE: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and liver cirrhosis frequently coexist, creating a high-risk population for adverse outcomes. Patients with both conditions face elevated risks of kidney and cardiovascular com
Natl Med J India. 2026 Mar-Apr;39(2):88-91. doi: 10.25259/NMJI_389_2023.ABSTRACTBackground India has the highest number of people with diabetes in the world. Health services for people with diabetes in India are varied with regard to quality, access, and affordability. We explored the various facets
Natl Med J India. 2026 Mar-Apr;39(2):120-123. doi: 10.25259/NMJI_1051_2024.ABSTRACTRandomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard design of studies evaluating novel interventions, pharmaceutical and otherwise. The standard RCT design is a 'superiority' study to assess if the tested interv
Natl Med J India. 2026 Mar-Apr;39(2):92-93. doi: 10.25259/NMJI_523_2024.ABSTRACTAnaphylactic acute coronary syndrome (Kounis syndrome) is under-recognized due to its wide spectrum of manifestations, ranging from asymptomatic cardiac biomarker elevation to frank ST-segment elevation myocardial infarc
Natl Med J India. 2026 Mar-Apr;39(2):94-95. doi: 10.25259/NMJI_517_2024.ABSTRACTKounis syndrome (KS), also known as allergic angina, is a type-1 hypersensitivity reaction affecting the coronary vessels, leading to vasospasm. It manifests like an acute coronary syndrome on the electrocardiogram and i
No abstractNatl Med J India. 2026 Mar-Apr;39(2):101-102. doi: 10.25259/NMJI_2072_2025.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41729491 | DOI:10.25259/NMJI_2072_2025
Int J Behav Med. 2026 Feb 23. doi: 10.1007/s12529-026-10439-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: To explore the association between sleep patterns and depressive symptoms in cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 2005-2014).METHOD
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2026 Feb 23. doi: 10.1007/s10554-026-03662-4. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: Inflammation is associated with the prognosis of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, the joint association of systemic inflammation and the local inflammation index of the
No abstractJ Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2026 Feb 23. doi: 10.1007/s10840-025-02220-7. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:41729356 | DOI:10.1007/s10840-025-02220-7
J Neurol. 2026 Feb 23;273(2):160. doi: 10.1007/s00415-026-13681-9.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: This study aimed to identify specific EEG features of status epilepticus (SE) in patients with mitochondrial diseases and correlate them with clinical and neuroimaging findings.METHODS: Clinical, EEG, and brain MRI
Pediatr Nephrol. 2026 Feb 23. doi: 10.1007/s00467-026-07197-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Previous reports have demonstrated that childhood obesity is associated with early chronic kidney disease. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between weight categories in late ad
Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2026 Feb 23. doi: 10.1080/17425247.2026.2636761. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: Atherosclerosis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease where lipid-lowering therapy alone leaves 30-40% residual cardiovascular risk, underscoring the need for immunomodulatory interv
Echocardiography. 2026 Feb;43(2):e70413. doi: 10.1111/echo.70413.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is characterized by progressive left ventricular (LV) remodeling and is often complicated by secondary (functional) mitral regurgitation (MR). Sacubitril-val
Ann Thorac Surg. 2026 Feb 23:S0003-4975(26)00014-7. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2026.01.002. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Pan-African Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery (PASCaTS) organized the 1st Pan-African Cardiothoracic Surgery Summit on 21 to 24 February 2025 in Accra, Ghana. The summit brou
Biomed Tech (Berl). 2026 Feb 24. doi: 10.1515/bmt-2025-0338. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVES: Sit-to-stand (STS) exercises are commonly incorporated in functional rehabilitation due to their simplicity, relevance to daily mobility and more recently, cardiac fitness. While generally consider
JCI Insight. 2026 Feb 23;11(4):e187422. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.187422. eCollection 2026 Feb 23.ABSTRACTWith the increasing use of genetic sequencing to investigate inborn errors of immunity, rare variants are frequently identified, yet their clinical relevance often remains uncertain. Establishing
JCI Insight. 2026 Feb 23;11(4):e185739. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.185739. eCollection 2026 Feb 23.ABSTRACTHow SARS-CoV-2 causes a wide range of clinical manifestations and disease severity remains poorly understood. SARS-CoV-2 encodes 2 proteases (3CLPro and PLPro), vital for viral production, but al
AIDS. 2026 Feb 23. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000004468. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: To assess changes of cardiovascular risk scores and metabolic scores after switching to DOR/3TC/TDF (DOR group), DTG/3TC (DTG group) or BIC/FTC/TAF (BIC group).METHODS: We analyzed data from 1069 virologic
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2026 Feb 2;67(2):44. doi: 10.1167/iovs.67.2.44.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: To investigate retinal microvascular and choriocapillaris changes across the newly proposed seven-step classification for macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel) using swept-source optical coherence tomography
