Pulse wave velocity as a tool for cardiometabolic risk stratification in individuals with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and increased BMI.

Objective: Obesity is one of the most prevalent risk factors for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP); however, the role of pre-pregnancy cardiometabolic health in the development of these conditions is not well understood. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an established measure of arterial stiffness and cardiovascular health and is validated in pregnancy. Our objective was to examine the obesity-related changes in PWV in pregnant individuals with and without HDP.

Vulvar Cancer: Histopathologic Considerations and Nuances to Management: Vulvar cancer considerations and nuances.

Vulvar cancer, though rare, poses significant challenges in diagnosis and treatment due to its histopathological complexities and nuances. This paper reviews key aspects of the management of vulvar cancer, focusing on histopathological diagnosis, margin status interpretation, lymph node involvement assessment, and ongoing clinical trials.

Impact of interface traps on charge noise and low-density transport properties in Ge/SiGe heterostructures.

Hole spins in Ge/SiGe heterostructures have emerged as an interesting qubit platform with favourable properties such as fast electrical control and noise-resilient operation at sweet spots. However, commonly observed gate-induced electrostatic disorder, drifts, and hysteresis hinder reproducible tune-up of SiGe-based quantum dot arrays. Here, we study Hall bar and quantum dot devices fabricated on Ge/SiGe heterostructures and present a consistent model for the origin of gate hysteresis and its impact on transport metrics and charge noise.

Sweet-spot operation of a germanium hole spin qubit with highly anisotropic noise sensitivity.

Spin qubits defined by valence band hole states are attractive for quantum information processing due to their inherent coupling to electric fields, enabling fast and scalable qubit control. Heavy holes in germanium are particularly promising, with recent demonstrations of fast and high-fidelity qubit operations. However, the mechanisms and anisotropies that underlie qubit driving and decoherence remain mostly unclear.