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Sept. 26, 2017

Over the past year, we have been following Team Novo Nordisk, the professional cycling team, as they travel the world and remind all of us that diabetes is not a disease that you cannot overcome. You can imagine that the cost of sponsoring a UCI team is very high. As …

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International Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus, 4th Ed., Excerpt #92: Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism, Hypolipidemic Agents, and Therapeutic Goals Part 4

Therapeutic approaches to the dyslipidemia of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus -- Key points: The rationale for treating the diabetic dyslipidemia is clear, it is associated with significantly increased risk of cardiovascular events.Weight loss, exercise, and diet modifications are key to successful treatment of all of the lipid abnormalities in patients with T2DM. Statins are the mainstay of therapy—they lower LDL cholesterol up to 50%, lower triglycerides about 15–25%, and have minimal effects of HDL cholesterol levels.

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Sept. 23, 2017

It is kind of funny that just a little over 4 years ago the idea that the kidneys had anything to do with causing diabetes was not in the realm of medical practice. “Way back” then only the opposite was imagined: that diabetes affected the kidneys. Then Invokana was introduced …

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