Preventive Care
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AACE: New algorithm stresses lifestyle modification in type 2 diabetes
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Swapping saturated fat and refined carbs for healthy fats could ease global CHD burden
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Antipsychotics may double to triple diabetes risk in youth
Key clinical point: Antipsychotics, particularly olanzapine, greatly increased the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in young people. Major finding...
Guidelines
How new dietary guidelines affect health care providers
While the new dietary guidelines, released jointly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department Agriculture, are geared...
Conference Coverage
Moderate, intensive exercise cut triglycerides equally in NAFLD
Moderate and intensive aerobic exercise, done regularly, are equally effective in reducing the intrahepatic triglyceride level in patients with...
Conference Coverage
Smartphone app simultaneously improves multiple chronic disease risk behaviors
Remote coaching supported by a smartphone app can simultaneously improve multiple unhealthy lifestyle behaviors.
Conference Coverage
Vegetarianism may protect against heart failure
The closer one gets to eating a vegan diet, the less likely are echocardiographic risk factors for early heart failure.
News
Chagas disease: Neither foreign nor untreatable
With better awareness of Chagas as a U.S. disease, and a treatable one, a positive blood result should never be ignored, say specialists.
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ACC, AHA update performance measures for lipid management
Conference Coverage
Diabetes raises the cardiovascular risk higher in women than men
Women with diabetes have a greater than twofold risk of coronary artery disease, compared with men with diabetes.
Conference Coverage
AHA: Older breast cancer patients more likely to die of heart disease than malignancy
Among women diagnosed with breast cancer in their 70s, more will die from cardiovascular disease than from their malignancy.