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Recent studies of microbiota offer insights into digestive disease management
LAS VEGAS – Microbiota have factored in specific digestive diseases, but their causality remains to be shown.
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CRC recurrence surveillance studies: No benefit to high-intensity strategy
More frequent follow-up with computed tomography of the thorax and abdomen and serum carcinoembyronic antigen (CEA) testing does not significantly...
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CARPREG II fine-tunes assessment of cardiac complication risk in pregnancy
The new risk index improves on its predecessor by integrating general, lesion-specific, and delivery-of-care variables, investigators say.
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Automated bone scan index predicts survival in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients
The automated BSI provides significantly greater discriminative ability compared with the current standard, which is manual assessment by counting...
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Canagliflozin linked to lower HbA1c levels in younger patients
BOSTON – Improvements were more pronounced in patients younger than 65 years at baseline.
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VIDEO: Canagliflozin’s HbA1c effect muted over time by placebo group effects
BOSTON – A higher rate of starting new antihyperglycemic agents in the placebo arm also likely contributed to the declining difference.
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VIDEO: Acromegaly study reveals gender-specific differences
BOSTON – Six-year event-free survival was higher for women than men with acromegaly.
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VIDEO: Location of thyroid nodules may predict malignancy
BOSTON – “We could consider including the location of thyroid nodules in the guidelines for better predictive value of malignancies.”
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VIDEO: Move beyond BMI to see obesity as a disease
BOSTON – It’s time to view obesity as a chronic disease with complications that may need medical therapy.
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VIDEO: Diabetes patients achieve lipid goals on alirocumab
BOSTON – The PCSK9 inhibitor performed in T2DM.
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Hematocrit improvement with SGLT2 inhibitor: Not just a diuretic effect?
BOSTON – New study explores mechanisms beyond those already known or suspected.
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Transgender care mandates endocrinologists share their expertise
BOSTON – Endocrinologists are urged to gain familiarity with the 2017 practice guidelines on patients who are gender dysphoric/gender incongruent...
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Do “VILPs” signal a new era for viral endocrinology?
BOSTON – “This is the tip of an iceberg, and could be the beginning of a new generation for endocrinologists – that of viral-hormone endocrinology...
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SCVD common in women with type 1 diabetes
BOSTON – The high incidence of systemic collagen vascular diseases suggests a progressive loss of immune function in women with type 1 diabetes....
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VIDEO: Half of after-hours calls to endocrinology fellows are nonurgent
Nonurgent calls are disruptive to fellows.
