Cardiology

Early detection and treatment of type 2 diabetes may be more beneficial than aggressive control of blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol… Screening to identify type 2 diabetes followed by early treatment could result in substantial health benefits, according to new research that combined large scale clinical observations and innovative …

How low should we go? A new study is a 10-year follow-up to the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial in which 1,791 type 2 diabetics over the age of 60 were enrolled. The veterans were randomly placed in either the “standard” therapy group that had a higher HbA1c goal or the …

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 …

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 …

Test may be inexpensive way to gauge patients at increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and premature death.

Controlling factors such as HbA1c, LDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and smoking can all help to reduce risk… Researchers assessed the incidence of major cardiovascular (CV) hospitalization events and all-cause deaths among adults with diabetes with or without CV disease (CVD) associated with inadequately controlled glycated hemoglobin (A1C), high LDL cholesterol …

Dapagliflozin could be used effectively in patients with type 2 diabetes, CVD, and hypertension, according to a new study…. Dapagliflozin is a selective sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor used in the management of type 2 diabetes. Not many studies have been conducted on the efficacy of this medication on patients with …

Higher fitness may be linked to a lower risk of incident diabetes… Many cross-sectional studies have observed a relationship between reduced cardiorespiratory fitness and glucose intolerance or diabetes risk. Other large cohort studies have also demonstrated that low fitness may precede the development of insulin resistance and diabetes. However, not …

In this longitudinal population-based study, 1609 patients were followed between 2002 and 2014 (mean, 10.9 years) to determine whether prediabetes affected risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) or diabetes mellitus (DM)… No association was found between prediabetes and the development of cardiovascular disease using models that were adjusted for several factors …

Both patients with and without diabetes but with thrice-weekly physical activity had reduced risk of cardiovascular events compared with patients with reduced physical activity…. Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and exercise training are essential parts of current guidelines for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, the contributions of LTPA and …