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A variant of the pulmonary arterial hypertension drug, Adempas, showed weight loss effects in mice…

A potential new pre-clinical marker to determine a patient’s risk for diabetes… Seven previous studies totaling nearly 100,000 patients found a positive association between those with a rapid heart rate and an increased risk of diabetes as compared to individuals with slow heart rates. Researchers found this same association in …

Advanced technologies and treatments should be implemented to improve metabolic control and outcomes in type 1 diabetic patients… An analysis to assess current diabetes treatments performed by T1D Exchange researchers shows a need for improvement in outcomes across all age groups, most notably adolescents and young adults. More than 16,000 …

Eating smaller meals is a way to lose weight, but skipping meals altogether has been linked to increased abdominal fat… “This does support the notion that small meals throughout the day can be helpful for weight loss, though that may not be practical for many people,” said Martha Belury, professor …

FFRCT compares the maximum achievable blood flow in a diseased coronary artery with the theoretical maximum flow in a normal one, eliminating the need to diagnose the problem via cardiac catheterization….

Deficiencies in iron, calcium and vitamin D were more common in the gastric bypass group…. A new international study found that two years post-surgery, those who had gastric bypass have better diabetes control, but they also had higher risks of infection and fractures. Researchers recruited 120 obese patients with type …

Study finds greater metabolic changes during pregnany with male fetus… Previous studies have found an association between the sex of the fetus and gestational diabetes, however this is the largest study showing this link. This population-based retrospective cohort studied the entire maternal population of Ontario with close to 643,000 women …

Canagliflozin appears to offer significant benefits when used in conjunction with insulin therapy.

Presence of 2-3 metobolic factors resulted in greater risk for black women compared to white women… An international team of American and Danish researchers identified 14,364 postmenopausal women from the Women’s Health Initiative who had data on fasting serum lipids and serum glucose and no history of cardiovascular disease or …

Score proposed to help facilitate diagnosis among population that infrequently sees primary physicians… As a part of campaigns to alleviate the health and financial burdens of undiagnosed diabetes, and because many Americans regularly visit their dentists, but not medical doctors, diabetes screening in dental offices has emerged as a promising …