Diabetes
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Drug Combo in New-onset Diabetes
Major finding: Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients who took a triple-drug therapy were 84% less likely to fail treatment by 24 months than...
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Be Assertive When Tackling Smoking, Obesity, Etc
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USPSTF: No Evidence for Routine Blood Pressure Screening in Children
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Type 2 diabetes encompasses three distinct subtypes
Major finding: Patients with type 2 diabetes can have an insulinopenic form, a hyperinsulinemic form, or a classic form with both defects.Data...
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Think Exercise First for Secondary Prevention?
Major finding: No statistically detectable difference was seen in mortality outcomes between exercise and drug interventions for the secondary...
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Diabetics Face Increased Treatment-resistant Hypertension Risk
Major finding: Diabetes patients with treatment-resistant hypertension had a 6.2% combined rate of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke over a...
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Gestational Diabetes Linked to Sleep Apnea
Major finding: Women with gestational diabetes are nearly seven times more likely to have sleep apnea and sleep an hour less than other pregnant...
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Diabetes, pro-BNP a bad mix for cardiac health
Major finding: Patients with type 2 diabetes and high levels of pro-B-type natriuretic peptide were 50% more likely to have a serious...
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Just over a third of hypertensive kidney patients are at target BP
Major finding: Of a large group of patients with chronic kidney disease and comorbid hypertension, 36% were at the blood pressure goal of less...
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Diabetic Patients' Stroke Risk Post MI has Plummeted
Major finding: The rate of ischemic stroke during the first year after an acute MI improved from 7.1% among Swedish diabetic patients whose...