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Vegetable fats tied to lower stroke risk, animal fats to higher risk
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- Marlene Busko
Higher intake of vegetable fats, such as olive oil and nuts, was associated with a lower risk for stroke, and animal fats, especially processed...
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More STEP data: Semaglutide cuts weight, cravings, beats liraglutide
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- Marlene Busko
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...
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Liraglutide effective against weight regain after gastric bypass
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- Marlene Busko
In a randomized controlled trial of patients who regained weight after a gastric bypass, 69% of patients given liraglutide lost at least 5% of...
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‘If obesity were diabetes or cancer, how would you approach it?’
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- Marlene Busko
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...
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New study ‘changes understanding of bone loss after menopause’
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- Marlene Busko
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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Nondiabetes hospitalization is wrong time to up diabetes meds
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- Marlene Busko
Diabetes treatment intensification after being hospitalized for reasons other than diabetes was linked with a short-term increase in risk of...
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Guidelines for managing hypo- and hyperparathyroidism
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- Marlene Busko
Upcoming guidelines on hypoparathyroidism and hyperparathyroidism guidelines were presented at the ASBMR meeting and will be published next year...
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Better bone builder: High-intensity exercise vs. Pilates
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- Marlene Busko
A high-intensity resistance and impact training program improved bone heath and function; a low-intensity Pilates-based exercise program improved...
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Lumbar epidural steroid jab lowers bone formation in older women
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- Marlene Busko
The extent and duration of the effects of a lumbar epidural steroid injection suggest that patients who receive multiple injections may be at...
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Oral PTH shows promise for osteoporosis in early phase 2 study
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- Marlene Busko
The most likely patients for oral PTH, he added, “are those that have osteoporosis, previous fracture, or very low BMD, particularly those...
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Cut risedronate drug holiday to under 2 years in older patients
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- Marlene Busko
Risedronate confers less hip fracture protection than alendronate during drug holidays beyond 2 years, so a 2- to 3-year drug holiday for...
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Exercise appears to improve bone structure, not density
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- Marlene Busko
In postmenopausal women, exercise appears to improve strength at the hip through changes in structure, not bone mineral density (BMD), whereas a...
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Could the osteoporosis drug alendronate ward off diabetes?
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- Marlene Busko
‘This is an interesting retrospective analysis, but it should be verified with other data such as a meta-analysis from clinical trials of...
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Time-restricted eating: An easy way to improve metabolic health?
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- Marlene Busko
"Time-restricted eating is an easy-to-follow and effective dietary strategy that requires less mental math than counting calories."
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Bone density gains are lost following stop of denosumab in glucocorticoid-treated RA
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- Marlene Busko
When denosumab is discontinued, glucocorticoid-treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis need to transition to another osteoporosis therapy.