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The risk of type 2 diabetes does not appear to be increased or decreased in elderly hypertension patients who use any of the major classes of antihypertensive medications.
Read More »Abnormal Fasting Plasma Glucose Linked With Ischemic Stroke
Ischemic stroke risk increases by 2.82 times when the fasting blood glucose is greater than 140 mg/dL
Read More »Losartan Plus Ramipril Reduces Blood Pressure in Diabetics With Hypertension
A fixed dose combination of losartan and ramipril showed good to excellent efficacy response in 98% of patients.
Read More »Family Physicians Launch Next Step of Fitness Initiative
AAFP president has lost 50 pounds, focus moves to office staff.
Read More »Diabetes Requires Aggressive Management
Live report from the AAFP annual meeting in Orlando, FL Diabetes kills one American every 3 minutes according to Dr. Jeffrey Unger of the Chino Medical Diabetes Intervention Center, in Chino, CA. That’s more than AIDS and breast cancer combined.
Read More »Obese Kids Want to Lose Weight
Live report from the AAFP annual meeting in Orlando, FL
Read More »Research Expands Arsenal Of Treatment Options For Diabetes
Live report from the AAFP annual meeting in Orlando, FL
Read More »Islet Transplantation Faces Serious Challenges
Very few patients remain insulin independent beyond 4 years after transplantation.
Read More »InnoLet Injection Device Relives Fears of Injection
The number of patients with signs of major distress related to the injections decreased by 53%,
Read More »Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Failure in US Doubled in Last Decade
Between 1990 and 2001, the prevalence of chronic kidney failure in the US rose from 697 to 1424 cases per million population, an increase of 104%, according to a report released Thursday
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