Patients with diabetes who undergo surgical resection for nonmetastatic colon cancer are at a higher risk of dying within 30 days of surgery than those patients without diabetes.
Among other strategies, clinicians can suggest changes to lifestyle habits, encourage sleep hygiene, and prescribe pharmacologic interventions to combat risk for metabolic syndrome in shift workers.
In older women, the risk for major osteoporotic fracture is not associated with long-term inhaled corticosteroid use and consequent respiratory diseases.
The Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Childhood Osteoporosis Working Group of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Rheumatology developed guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of secondary childhood osteoporosis.
The risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection (STI) is not higher among adolescents using long-acting reversible contraceptives.
Adherence to antimalarial therapy can provide a protective effect against the development of type 2 diabetes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Treatment with alirocumab was found to be associated with clinically meaningful long-term reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in patients with autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia and elevated LDL-C treated with lipid-lowering therapy.
Patients with familial combined hyperlipidemia may have more severe pro-atherogenic changes in the presence vs absence of hypertriglyceridemia.
Researchers assessed the effect of hyperuricemia with and without psoriasis on bone microstructure and volumetric bone mineral density.
Patients receiving intensive low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol-lowering therapy may have better clinical outcomes when their body mass index is normal vs high.
