Diabetes
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If a saphenous graft is available, treat limb threatening ischemia surgically
Surgery beats endovascular treatment for limb threatening ischemia when saphenous grafts are an option, according to the BEST-CLI trial.
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NAFLD patients with diabetes have higher fibrosis progression rate
Patients with type 2 diabetes had about a 2-year faster progression to fibrosis.
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Triglyceride-lowering fails to show CV benefit in large fibrate trial
In the phase 3 PROMINENT trial, pemafibrate improved multiple lipid fractions in patients with type 2 diabetes, without any impact on...
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Exercise later in the day for better blood glucose control?
“At this stage, I believe it is most important to be physically active in general. So ... if the morning is the only time of the day to go for a...
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ObesityWeek 2022: What’s stopping effective treatment of obesity?
In the biggest international conference on obesity, delegates will discuss obesity in children and barriers to use of newer anti-obesity drugs,...
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Finerenone: ‘Striking’ cut in pneumonia, COVID-19 risks
Secondary analyses of the finerenone pivotal trials showed that the agent was linked with less infective pneumonia and blunted COVID-19 severity...
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Goodbye ‘diabetes insipidus’, hello ‘AVP-D’ and ‘AVP-R’
Confusion with the term ‘diabetes mellitus’ ... has spurred proposed name change by an international panel representing major endocrinology...
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Yoga and other mind-body work good for diabetes control
Mind-body practices can control fasting blood glucose and A1c to a clinically significant extent, thus offering an effective complementary...
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Drug repurposing ‘fast track’ to new medicines for obesity, diabetes
“We would like to progress some of these compounds to preclinical and clinical trials, but need to raise the funds for this expensive research.”...
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Islet transplants in type 1 diabetes durable up to 8 years
Long-term insulin independence and safety is seen with islet-cell transplant in patients with severe hypoglycemia at baseline.
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Insulin rationing common, ‘surprising’ even among privately insured
Americans with private insurance are more likely to ration insulin than are those with public health insurance and the insulin-treated diabetes...