Endocrinology
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What’s the best time of day to exercise? It depends on your goals
When you exercise can ultimately have a big effect in terms of strength, fat loss, heart health, mood, and quality of sleep.
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Can the ketogenic diet treat polycystic ovary syndrome?
The primary outcomes were changes in weight and body composition, specifically fat mass and lean mass, measured by bioimpedance.
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Ultra-processed: Doctors debate whether putting this label on foods is useful
Some experts say increased awareness and labeling of ultra-processed foods can only be a good thing. Others say that the classification system...
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Diabetes tied to risk of long COVID, too
Roughly 43% of studies in a literature review identified diabetes as a risk factor for postacute sequelae of COVID-19.
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Why do we treat menopause as a disease?
Over centuries society and medicine have emphasized the negative aspects, and authors of a new analysis say this has eaten away at women’s...
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Hypothyroidism: No more waiting to eat or drink with liquid thyroxine?
Two manufacturers of liquid levothyroxine products now have data showing that patients with hypothyroidism could take these formulations and then...
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New National Lipid Association statement on statin intolerance
The statement offers strategies to help patients stay on statin medications and suggests alternatives that can be used in patients who really...
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New studies show growing number of trans, nonbinary youth in U.S.
Overall, some 1.6 million Americans older than age 13 now identify as transgender, reported the researchers.
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Jury still out on cardiovascular safety of testosterone
A meta-analysis may provide some reassurance of the short-term cardiovascular safety of testosterone therapy for male hypogonadism until...
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PCOS comes with high morbidity, medication use into late 40s
Overall morbidity risk was 35% higher than for women without PCOS and medication use was 27% higher. Some comorbidities were independent of BMI....
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Omega-3 supplement sweet spot found for BP reduction
A meta-analysis of almost 5,000 people found that 2-3 g of omega-3 fatty acids a day is optimal for reducing blood pressure in people with high BP...