Endocrinology
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Subclinical hypothyroidism predicts cardiovascular mortality in NHANES
Major finding: Healthy adults with subclinical hypothyroidism had a 24% greater risk of cardiovascular death than did euthyroid individuals during...
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Intense statin therapy treats atheromas in diabetes
Major finding: The percent atheroma volume after high-intensity statin therapy decreased by 1.04% in diabetic patients and by 1.21% in nondiabetic...
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Cortisol breakdown impaired during critical illness
Major finding: Elevated cortisol levels in critically ill patients are only partly explained by increased cortisol production; they also are due...
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Gastric bypass shows best results for glycemic control
Major finding: Gastric bypass beats sleeve gastrectomy and intensive medical therapy in type 2 diabetes management.Data source: Prospective,...
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Migraines, heart disease increasing in children
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There's an app for lowering HbA1c, too
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Alpha-fetoprotein useful marker in HCC
Major finding: Each standard deviation unit increase in serum alpha-fetoprotein carried a 1.026 odds ratio for hepatocellular carcinoma.Data...
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Recommendations for gestational diabetes mellitus screening remain unchanged
Major finding: An independent panel assembled for the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus determined...
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Closed-loop artificial pancreas creeps closer to reality
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Exenatide, sitagliptin associated with doubled risk for acute pancreatitis
Major finding: Diabetes patients who took sitagliptin or exenatide faced twice the risk of being hospitalized for acute pancreatitis.Data source:...