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- Marlene Busko
Publish date: February 28, 2023
Health care professionals should be asking all patients about their sleep as a key aspect of maintaining heart health, says a sleep expert.
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: February 28, 2023
Artificial sweeteners are “generally recognized as safe” by the FDA, so there is no requirement for long-term safety studies, and little is known a...
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- Marlene Busko
Publish date: February 23, 2023
Should a patient’s request for a health care practitioner of a different race or sex always be accommodated? A recent blog called for a zero tolera...
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- Marlene Busko
Publish date: February 22, 2023
“When we compared the results of our study groups, we saw clearly that the most improved patients were in the group that followed the alternate-day...
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- Marlene Busko
Publish date: February 13, 2023
“A new finding is that we observed some phthalates are associated with a higher risk of diabetes development, especially in White women [that] were...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: January 19, 2023
Greater intake of nitrites from food additives was tied to greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes, in a French study, but some experts question...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: December 19, 2022
The protective effect of daily step count on type 2 diabetes risk remained after adjusting for smoking and sedentary time.
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: December 15, 2022
Intermittent fasting could be a paradigm shift in type 2 diabetes management, allowing patients to stop taking glucose-lowering medication.
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 22, 2022
Only 28% of participants in a study had “good agreement” between their perceived diet quality and its actual quality.
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 18, 2022
“This is an exciting period because, 10 years ago, nobody thought that [results with] pharmacotherapy can approach bariatric surgery.”
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 10, 2022
The “bottom line” is that this potential new antiobesity/diabetes drug is “very promising, but [it is] still a little early to say where it ultimat...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 10, 2022
The antiobesity medication semaglutide “took things up one big notch, and now tirzepatide is up a little notch above that,” one expert said.
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 5, 2022
The postimplantation electrocardiogram from the first pig heart xenotransplantation resembled neither a pig nor a human ECG, with unknown implicati...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 3, 2022
“We are getting close to bariatric surgery results” in these adolescent patients with obesity. To have 40% of patients attain normal weight, “that’...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 3, 2022
For younger patients recovering from myocardial infarction, managing personal stress may be as important as addressing other clinical risk factors....
