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Causing more harm than good for patients…

Trans fatty acid consumption correlates with diabetes risk…

However, peanut butter was not related to mortality…. Nut intake has been associated with lower mortality, but few studies have investigated causes of death other than cardiovascular disease, and dose-response relationships remain unclear. Researchers from the Maastricht University Medical Center, The Netherland, investigated the relationship of nut (tree nut, peanut) …

Treatment with canagliflozin, an SGLT-2 inhibitor, was associated with reductions in body weight, HbA1c and systolic blood pressure.

Inactivity seems to compromise the cardiometabolic system…. The study with 4,600 children found that children who engage in daily physical exercise reap the health benefits as early as their teens. They found that those who were more active in late childhood had a lower body weight and lower risk factors for …

Etta Vinik talks about how clinicians need to understand how patients sometimes have to go to incredible efforts just to get in for an appointment and that it is important to spend time with them when they do. And she lets us know how finding a good physical activity that …

While we are pulling together this past weekend’s ADA videos for you, we thought we’d share this video from last year’s ADA with Etta Vinik, who has partnered with her husband Aaron Vinik, MD, over many years in improving diabetes education for patients as well as helping cliinicians to better …

Seasonal affects on immune system may explain increase in type 1 diagnoses in winter….

Participants saw a 43.8% reduction in triglycerides…

Measurement of neck proves additional indicator of upper-body subcutaneous fat, metabolic risk… In the study of 138 obesity-clinic patients, neck circumference cutoffs of 36 cm or greater in females and 39 cm or more in males correlated with criteria for the metabolic syndrome. In women more than men, neck circumference …