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- Marlene Busko
Publish date: March 9, 2021
“This is by far the best result we had with any weight loss medicine in patients with diabetes,” says the senior author of the STEP 2 clinical tria...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: February 12, 2021
“On the face of it, the STEP 1 trial (like its name) is a good beginning,” said the editorialists. More patients in the semaglutide group had clini...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: February 3, 2021
These results provide “the most robust scientific evidence yet that full-blown type 2 diabetes is a curable disease, not inevitably progressive, an...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: January 27, 2021
‘Blockade of the activin receptor with bimagrumab could provide a novel pharmacologic approach for managing patients with type 2 diabetes with exce...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 23, 2020
“It is absolutely critical” that cardiologists and general providers screen patients for marijuana use, “either at the time of their MI or ideally ...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 17, 2020
Results of new studies of in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest underline that, despite lower survival rates during the pandemic, rates are “not z...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 17, 2020
“To think excess weight may also be detrimental to acute effects of a novel virus running amok in the world has focused minds on obesity ...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 13, 2020
“This is impressive data, confirming that semaglutide, particularly when used in concert with evidence-based counseling, is a highly effective agen...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 9, 2020
The findings are “novel because of the age of the patients,” according to one of the investigators.
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 5, 2020
The impact of obesity was most pronounced in women younger than 50 years.
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: October 28, 2020
The algorithm helps clinicians “focus on LDL-C, triglycerides, high-risk patients, and lifestyle [and] understand all the medications available to ...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: October 14, 2020
The recently approved treatment improved serum phosphorus and key measures of pain and stiffness in subgroups of adults with this rare form of inhe...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: September 22, 2020
The clinical implications of research to date are that “the risk of AFF should not dissuade patients and providers from short-term use of bisphosph...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: September 18, 2020
Debaters at a session of the recent virtual ASBMR 2020 annual meeting could have gone either way on this topic, but data and evidence are curr...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: September 18, 2020
The “data give strong observational support to previous suggestions that reduced vitamin D levels may favor the appearance of severe respiratory dy...
