Diabetes
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Noninvasive fibrosis scores not sensitive in people with fatty liver disease and T2D
Alternatives to liver biopsy are less than ideal for detecting advanced fibrosis in patients with underlying diabetes.
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Patients with preexisting diabetes benefit less from bariatric surgery
The effect was particularly pronounced over time for patients who received gastric bypass surgery.
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Dapagliflozin trial in CKD halted because of high efficacy
An independent data monitoring committee recommended stopping the trial.
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Larger absolute rivaroxaban benefit in diabetes: COMPASS
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Keep calm: Under 25s with diabetes aren't being hospitalized for COVID-19
But some are concerned that type 1 diabetes diagnoses are being delayed.
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Low fitness level linked to higher risk of heart failure in diabetes
PHOENIX –Therapies targeting large and sustained improvements in fitness and weight loss may modify the risk of heart failure in patients with...
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Cardiovascular risk varies between black ethnic subgroups
PHOENIX, ARIZ. – Smoking prevalence was highest in whites and African Americans, compared with African immigrants and Afro-Caribbeans.
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Study identifies two distinct type 1 diabetes ‘endotypes’
The immune attack may be more aggressive and the islets more inflamed in the younger-onset T1DE1 group and less intense in the older-onset T1DE2...
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FDA advises stopping SGLT2 inhibitor treatment prior to surgery
The changes affect canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, empagliflozin, and ertugliflozin, and were made because surgery may put patients taking SGLT2...
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Study links GLP-1R agonists, lower inflammatory biomarker levels
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Treating COVID-19 in patients with diabetes
Most health advisories about COVID-2019 mention diabetes as one of the high-risk categories for the disease.