Lipid Disorders
Commentary
A guideline tsunami: Cholesterol and blood pressure targets
News
FDA panel backs dapagliflozin for type 2 diabetes
Conference Coverage
Meta-analysis: Statins beneficial, even after age 75
Major finding: While the relative risk reduction provided by statin therapy in patients over age 75 is smaller than in younger age groups, the...
Conference Coverage
Statin in childhood reduces CHD risk in familial hypercholesterolemia
Major finding: At age 30, the cardiovascular event rate in 214 Dutch patients with FH who began statin therapy as children or adolescents was zero...
Conference Coverage
Healthy diet after diabetes diagnosis improves survival
Major finding: Women who placed in the top quintile for a healthy eating pattern following their diagnosis of type 2 diabetes had all-cause and...
News
Diabetes morbidity varies with patient age, disease duration
Major finding: The rate of serious hypoglycemic events per 1,000 person-years rose from 3.0 in the youngest patients with the shortest duration of...
Conference Coverage
Body fat and cardiovascular risk: Location, location, location!
Major finding: Excess visceral adipose tissue in obese adults was independently associated with increased risk of subsequent cardiovascular...
Conference Coverage
Bromocriptine-QR slashes cardiovascular events in diabetics on metformin
Major finding: The 1-year composite cardiovascular event rate in type 2 diabetic patients on metformin at baseline was 1.3% in patients on quick-...
News
Diet drinks’ link to cardiometabolic disease elusive
News
Heart failure exacerbation by saxagliptin called ‘real’
Major finding: Treatment with saxagliptin led to a "real" 0.7% increased rate of hospitalization for heart failure, compared with patients on...
Conference Coverage
Chelation plus vitamins halved cardiovascular events in diabetics
Major finding: A mere 5.5 diabetic patients with a history of MI needed to be treated with a regimen of EDTA chelation plus high-dose...