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Jan 6, 2025 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
Vitamin D may protect against young-onset ischaemic stroke through preventing atrial fibrillation (AF), a University of Hong Kong (HKU) study on Southern Chinese has found.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
Outcomes after endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) in patients ≥80 years old were significantly worse than those in their younger counterparts, a Hong Kong stroke centre study has found.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
High-dose somatostatin analogues (SSAs) can be effective and well-tolerated second-line therapies in
neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) progressing on standard-dose SSAs in selected cases, according to Dr Ingrid Mak of the University of Hong Kong, at the 7th Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Hong Kong Annual Meeting (EDM HK 2024).
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
Compared with conventional therapies, exposure to tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors is associated with increased risk of inflammatory central nervous system (CNS) diseases, irrespective of background autoimmune disease or TNF inhibitor type, a recent meta-analysis has found.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
The proportion of Hong Kong’s population with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome has increased from 87.8 percent 20 years ago to 90.8 percent in 2024, an ongoing population-based, cross-sectional study of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and disease prevalence in Hong Kong Chinese (N-CRISPS) has found.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
Low-field 0.23T MRI technology has been introduced recently as part of the launch of Hong Kong’s first one-stop acute stroke management model, the Emergency Stroke Unit (ESU), at Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH).
Since the launch of the ESU in August 2024, the team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine and PWH has performed low-field MRI examinations on more than 20 patients at PWH with promising results.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
Telemedicine for
diabetes using the HA Go mobile app developed by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA) is shown to be effective, reported Ms Maisy Mok, Nurse Consultant (Diabetes) of the HA Kowloon East Cluster, at the 26th Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Factors – East Meets West Symposium.
HA Go is a one-stop, secured mobile platform tailor-made to include functions for HA teleconsultation, aiming to connect with patients beyond hospital care and empower them to manage their own health.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have developed an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) assessment model that has the potential to fundamentally change the
prevention and management of cardio-cerebrovascular (CCV) diseases specifically in the Chinese population.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
Women with
epilepsy are at considerably higher risk of severe maternal and perinatal outcomes and increased risk of death during pregnancy and postpartum, and the use of antiseizure medications (ASM) further increases these risks, the largest study to date has found.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
mims.com | Elaine Tan
The risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI) is significantly higher in critically ill patients with
influenza A than those with
COVID-19, a study by researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has found.
The retrospective cohort study found that patients with COVID-19 had a 49 percent lower risk (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.51; 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 0.42–0.61; p<0.0001) of AKI than those with COVID-19.
