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Personalized nutrition therapy promotes diabetes remission
The chances of remission increase if body weight is reduced by 5% and waist circumference is reduced by around 4 cm in women and 7 cm in men.
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Vegan diet confers cardiometabolic benefits
“Clinicians may consider recommending plant-based diets to reduce cardiometabolic risk factors, as well as aligning with environmental benefits...
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Meet the newest acronym in primary care: CKM
“This approach not only raises awareness, it also empowers PCPs to diagnose and treat these conditions more holistically.”
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‘Smart’ stethoscope spots peripartum cardiomyopathy
Finding that 4% of the women in the intervention arm had reduced ejection fraction is “absolutely startling ... and speaks to how important...
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PREVENT: AHA’s new risk calculator incorporates CKM health
PREVENT is for use in adults aged 30-79 years and estimates the 10- and 30-year risk of total CVD including, for the first time, heart failure.
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WHO: Smoking cessation reduces risk of type 2 diabetes up to 40%
Key misconceptions among smokers with type 2 diabetes that can prevent cessation include concerns about post-cessation weight gain, the influence...
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Sleeping beats sitting? What a new study means for your patients
“Our study highlights that replacing sedentary behavior with any other behavior can be beneficial.”
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‘Love more’: Why doctors should promote social connection
Embracing community and close relationships helps people live longer and be happier.
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Pharmacist-based strategy places more patients on statins
In two studies run in parallel fashion, testing different strategies, automatic referral to a pharmacist was superior to EHR alerts for increasing...
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Better postpartum BP control with self-monitoring: POP-HT
“This trial identifies a potential need for a paradigm shift in the way women affected by hypertensive pregnancy are managed postnatally,” said Dr...
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Apixaban cuts stroke but ups bleeding in subclinical AFib: ARTESIA
The big question is whether the reduction in stroke with anticoagulation outweighs the increase in major bleeding.