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Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) was first documented by a French physician Jean-Pierre Saint-Yves in 1817 (19th century). The clinical description of NAION was not known until 1935 when C. Miller Fischer thoroughly described i…
Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that usually presents in young adults with painful abscesses in intertriginous areas. We present a case of severe hidradenitis suppurativa (Hidradenitis Suppurativa Investigator Global A…
AIMS: To investigate the efficacy of the integrated data platform of cloud hospital combined with dietary management for adults with type 2 diabetes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a randomized controlled clinical trial. One hundred eighty patie…
AIMS/INTRODUCTION: PIONEER REAL Japan was a non-interventional prospective study of oral semaglutide in adults with type 2 diabetes in Japanese clinical practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Adults naïve to injectable glucose-lowering therapies initiated…
INTRODUCTION: ASCEND PLUS is a randomised controlled trial assessing the effects of oral semaglutide on the primary prevention of cardiovascular events in around 20,000 individuals with type 2 diabetes in the UK. The trial's innovative design include…
INTRODUCTION: Semaglutide is a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist that treats type 2 diabetes mellitus and can be used as an adjunct for weight loss when combined with exercise and diet. Here we report a case of a bilateral, incongruent central…
BACKGROUND: The efficacy of GLP1 receptor agonists (GLP1-RAs) in treating polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) remains unclear. While GLP1-RAs are known to promote weight loss in patients with diabetes and living with obesity, their impact on weight re…
BACKGROUND: Semaglutide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist, reduces the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in people with overweight or obesity, but the effects of this drug on outcomes in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease a…
BACKGROUND: Our objective was to determine the number of major cardiovascular events (MACE, nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke, or cardiovascular death) and deaths from any cause that could be prevented across varying nationwide uptake o…
OBJECTIVE: Co-treatment with long acting PYY and the GLP-1 receptor agonists has potential as an efficient obesity treatment. This study investigates whether the mechanisms behind additive reduction of food intake and weight loss depends on complemen…
UNLABELLED: While there have been significant advances in the development of peptide oral dosage forms in recent years, highlighted by the clinical and commercial success of approved peptides such as Rybelsus®, there remain several barriers in the wa…
AIM: Efficient primary prevention of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is currently lacking. The identification of people at high DKD risk and timely intervention are key to preventing DKD. Therefore, a model to classify people according to their risk fo…
In recent years there has been an extraordinary increase in the use of different filler materials as facial cosmetic treatments. The popularity of injectable tissue fillers among individuals who wish to restore volume and gain a more youthful appeara…
AIMS: The aim of this study was to assess the ChatGPT-4 (ChatGPT) large language model (LLM) on tasks relevant to community pharmacy. METHODS: ChatGPT was assessed with community pharmacy-relevant test cases involving drug information retrieval, iden…
In this editorial, we comment on Yin's recently published Letter to the editor. In particular, we focus on the potential use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) alone, but even more so in combination therapy, as one of the most pr…