Long-Term Complications and Treatments Steve V. Edelman, MD Robert R. Henry, MD Microvascular Complications (cont’d) Gastroparesis This neuropathy should be suspected in patients with nausea, vomiting, early satiety, abdominal distention, and bloating following a meal, and is secondary to delayed emptying and retention of gastric contents. The delay in gastric emptying …

New reports over the past couple of weeks tell a lot about our health. First it was 1 in 3 Americans have either prediabetes or diabetes and then we got news that over 50% of us are either obese or overweight. Last week the CDC released information that over 25% of …

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Worldwide Adult Obesity Prevalence Has Doubled Since 1980: Three studies recently published in The Lancet suggest the worldwide prevalence of obesity has doubled since 1980, but that average blood pressure and cholesterol levels have decreased in wealthy Western countries. According to the findings, more than one in 10 of the …

Starbuck’s New Size “Trenta” Can Mean Bigger Americans: When you’re ordering the new “Trenta” iced coffee you’re not only getting a massive drink (31 ounces) but you are also getting massive calories (230 calories using whole milk with sweetener) – with the corresponding potential to pack on more than 20 …

Feeding Babies Solids Early Tied to Obesity: Formula-fed infants who start on solid foods before the age of four months have a higher risk of obesity by three years compared to those who start solid foods later‚ according to Harvard researchers. Researchers found no association between the timing of weaning …

A new Manhattan Study (NOMAS) presented at last week’s American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference, states that people who drank diet soda every day had a 61% higher risk of vascular events than those who reported no soda drinking.…

Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in Toronto have developed a new tool that will help doctors predict the probability of death in patients after an ischemic stroke….

Type 1 diabetes is linked to nearly a 10-fold increase in cold-like enterovirus infection, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational molecular studies.…

This study strengthens the plausibility that low serum vitamin D levels elevate the risk for early-stage diabetes and hypertension….