With multiple Top 10 finishes, veteran Team Novo Nordisk rider Martijn Verschool is back in the saddle this week as he prepares to compete in the Tour of Hainan.

In this week's Homerun Slides, the results of a multinational, placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, 24-week study involving patients who were receiving insulin (not routine pre-meal short- or rapid-acting insulin, except as pre-mixed insulin) administered alone or in combination with metformin (³1500 mg per day) and who had inadequate glycemic control (A1C ³7.5% and ≤11%).

Plant sterols, hydrogenated to stanols, reduce cholesterol absorption. At the recommended intake of 2 g/day they can lower total cholesterol by 12–14% and LDL by 13–16% (e.g. 0.3 mmol/L, 12 mg/dL) in both type 1 and 2 patients.