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Obese Patients Have Lower CV Mortality after CV Procedures than Lower BMI Patients

After revascularization procedures, the risk for total mortality, cardiovascular mortality and myocardial infarction is highest among patients with low BMI, according to research. Similarly, CV mortality was lowest among overweight patients in the meta-analysis conducted by Abhishek Sharma, MD, of the Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., and colleagues, who looked …

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SGLT2 Inhibitor Empagliflozin Wins FDA OK

The glucose-reducing drug empagliflozin (Jardiance) won approval today from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after Boehringer Ingelheim corrected manufacturing problems that caused the agency to say "no" in March…. 

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