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Many African Americans getting tight blood pressure control had worsening chronic kidney disease nonetheless, a large multicenter trial found.

Fenofibrate has no effect on atherosclerotic progression in patients with type 2 diabetes who are treated for 5 years, although the drug does produce a reduction in levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) compared with placebo.

Metformin was more effective in reducing selected biomarkers reflecting inflammation and endothelial dysfunction compared with repaglinide.

Diets high in fast food can be highly toxic to the liver and other internal organs, but that damage can be reversed, says one of the country’s leading experts on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, who offers four steps to undo the effects of a ‘super-size me’ diet.

Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere report what is believed to be the first wide-scale evidence linking severe overweight to prolonged inflammation of heart tissue and the subsequent damage leading to failure of the body’s blood-pumping organ.

Giving most people with diabetes an inexpensive combination of medications consisting of an ACE, Aspirin, Metformin and a Statin, could dramatically reduce the number of diabetes-related complications and deaths in America and ultimately save money, according to a highly detailed mathematical model developed to simulate human physiology and health care …

Diabetes classes or visits to a nutritionist by patients with diabetics are associated with lower hospitalization rates and reductions in medical costs, according to new findings published in Diabetes Care. Having had any type of educational visit was associated with $11,571 less in hospital charges per person,

In a randomized trial of patient-titrated insulin glargine with family physicians was compared with standard oral therapy.

Higher blood pressures in childhood correlated with higher levels in young adulthood, European researchers reported In a study of nearly 900 type 1 diabetics.

In a long-term follow-up study, angina symptoms in men and women in their 40s as reported on a short version of the World Health Organization’s Rose Angina Questionnaire were a major risk factor for premature death due to coronary heart disease (CHD).