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- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 23, 2021
Secondary antibiotic prophylaxis can improve outcomes for children with echo-detected rheumatic heart disease, a randomized trial in Uganda shows. ...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 22, 2021
The finding may help explain why 50% of firefighter deaths in the line of duty are from cardiovascular disease, and suggests that physicians and ot...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 14, 2021
Higher intake of vegetable fats, such as olive oil and nuts, was associated with a lower risk for stroke, and animal fats, especially processed red...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 12, 2021
In STEP 5, weight loss with semaglutide was sustained at 2 years and the drug cut cravings in a subgroup; in STEP 8, semaglutide beat liraglutide f...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 9, 2021
In a randomized controlled trial of patients who regained weight after a gastric bypass, 69% of patients given liraglutide lost at least 5% of thei...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 9, 2021
There’s so much misinformation about obesity, says an expert. ‘People think it’s a lack of willpower, and even patients blame themselves for not be...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: November 4, 2021
The study sheds light on long-term changes in BMD in postmenopausal women and “stresses the importance of high peak bone mass before menopause and ...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: October 28, 2021
Diabetes treatment intensification after being hospitalized for reasons other than diabetes was linked with a short-term increase in risk of severe...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: October 20, 2021
Upcoming guidelines on hypoparathyroidism and hyperparathyroidism guidelines were presented at the ASBMR meeting and will be published next year.
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: October 15, 2021
A high-intensity resistance and impact training program improved bone heath and function; a low-intensity Pilates-based exercise program improved f...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: October 15, 2021
The extent and duration of the effects of a lumbar epidural steroid injection suggest that patients who receive multiple injections may be at parti...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: October 13, 2021
The most likely patients for oral PTH, he added, “are those that have osteoporosis, previous fracture, or very low BMD, particularly those unlikely...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: October 6, 2021
Risedronate confers less hip fracture protection than alendronate during drug holidays beyond 2 years, so a 2- to 3-year drug holiday for risedrona...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: October 6, 2021
In postmenopausal women, exercise appears to improve strength at the hip through changes in structure, not bone mineral density (BMD), whereas a bi...
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- Author:
- Marlene Busko
Publish date: September 30, 2021
‘This is an interesting retrospective analysis, but it should be verified with other data such as a meta-analysis from clinical trials of bisphosph...
