Endocrinology
Conference Coverage
ESC heart failure guideline to integrate bounty of new meds
It has a simple answer to a seemingly complex issue: how to merge the newly approved with mainstay drug therapies. And it conditionally okays meds...
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PCPs lag on albuminuria tests in patients with type 2 diabetes
Opinion
Obesity treatment in mental illness: Is semaglutide a game changer?
Maybe it’s time for psychiatrists to prescribe medications that prevent weight gain, Dr. Dinah Miller says.
Guidelines
ACC issues decision pathway for hypertriglyceridemia management
“In light of the controversies regarding the REDUCE-IT trial, the writing committee has done a nice job with providing useful guidance regarding...
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ARBs equal ACE inhibitors for hypertension, and better tolerated
Although ACE inhibitors are more commonly prescribed, new findings from almost 3 million patients support starting with ARBs as first-time...
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Diabetes duration linked to increasing heart failure risk
Diabetes duration of 15 years or more is tied to a tripled incident heart failure rate, 20-year follow-up on nearly 10,000 U.S. adults shows.
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Dapagliflozin safe, protective in advanced kidney disease
“This is now the absolute reassurance that we do not have to stop an SGLT2 inhibitor in people with eGFR< 30 mL/min for safety reasons” and...
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Statins again linked to lower COVID-19 mortality
Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 who had been taking statins had a substantially lower risk of death and severe outcomes than those who weren’t...
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Analysis supports CAC for personalizing statin use
A cross-sectional study confirms a coronary artery calcium score of 0 may obviate the need for statins in the context of risk-enhancing factors....
Practice Alert
How to proceed when it comes to vitamin D
USPSTF findings would support screening selective populations at risk for deficiency. But the value of supplements for prevention is nil or still...
Latest News
‘I did nothing wrong’: MDs used their own sperm for fertility patients
“The hubris of a doctor to impregnate his own patient, in some effort to either save money or populate the world with his offspring, is striking...