Outcomes of early enteral feeding in patients after curative colorectal cancer surgery: A retrospective comparative study.

Purpose: To compare the clinical outcomes of patients with and without early enteral nutrition after colorectal cancer surgery.

Methods: This is a retrospective comparative study using propensity score-matched cases. The study subjects were patients who received colorectal cancer resection surgeries during 2013 and 2018 in a Taiwan medical center.

A lower blood pressure threshold to define hypertension: the effect on prevalence, control rate, and constituent ratio of systolic and/or diastolic hypertension.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of the new US hypertension criteria [systolic blood pressure/diastolic blood pressure (SBP/DBP ≥130/80 mmHg)] on hypertension prevalence and the constituent ratio of three hypertension phenotypes.

Participants And Methods: This study included 1185 adult participants, who received blood pressure (BP) measurements for 3 days over a 7-day period. At each visit, the BP was measured three times and the average was used as the final value.