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Low-intensity home exercise program improves physical performance in dialysis patients… Heart disease is the leading cause of death in patients with chronic kidney disease. Patients with chronic kidney disease have reduced capacity for exercise due to their conditions. Sharlene Greenwood, MD, and her colleagues examined the effect of 12 months …

Prevention methods differ from standard stroke and myocardial infarction presentations in T2DM patients… Type 2 diabetes patients are considered to be at increased risk for cardiovascular diseases. While the incidence of stroke and myocardial infarction has been decreasing in type 2 diabetes patients, these disease states continue to be the …

The use of a discharge algorithm based on admission HbA1c results in lowered HbA1c levels….

Sixty-five percent of patients with type 2 diabetes showed no indication of diabetes two years after surgery and were able to stop their diabetic medications… Figures released recently show that bariatric surgeons in the UK are increasingly successful at helping people control their weight even though they are operating on …

Penn Medicine study has implications for 100 top-selling US drugs, half of which target daily-oscillating genes…

Patients with vitiligo found to have higher prevalence of diabetes and thyroid dysfunction…

The Zio Event Card  The ZIO® Event Card is a prescription-only, single-use, disposable, looping ECG monitor that can be worn for up to 30 days. With the profile of three stacked credit cards and weighing less than 2 ounces, the ZIO Event Card is intended to be comfortable to wear …

Dr. Aaron Vinik continues his discussion of why the “glucophiles” and those promoting lower lipids may be missing a larger picture which involves dopamine levels in the brain. In this in-depth analysis, he talks about what we may have been missing all along and some of the past research studies …

In answering a question on the status of cycloset as a glucose lowering drug, Dr. Aaron Vinik delves into the deeper question of how glycemic control relates to effective cardiovascular therapy. He talks about the ACCORD trial and what we learned from that, and his answers may surprise you….

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz talks about the Annual Cycle of Metabolism that has helped keep humans alive for tens of thousands of year but is now working to our disadvantage instead resulting in Modern Insulin Resistant Man…. To download these slides in PowerPoint (.ppt) format, use this link: Diabetes …