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Data from a longitudinal cohort study of patients with type 2 diabetes infected with HIV aims to elucidate whether initial choice of oral diabetic medication had effects on glycemic control.

Adding sitagliptin to basal insulin was noninferior to a basal-bolus insulin regimen for patients with type 2 diabetes.

The association between risk for hip fracture and diabetes was attenuated after accounting for mortality risk.

In postmenopausal women taking hormone therapy, risk for death from vascular dementia appeared to be reduced.

Treatment with growth hormone did not affect insulin sensitivity or insulin secretion in girls with Turner syndrome.

Of 4 treatment regimens, a combination of basal insulin and a GLP-1 receptor agonist was linked to the lowest glucose variability and hypoglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Veterans undergoing statin therapy had an increased risk of developing diabetes over a 10-year period; however, physical fitness was associated with a decreased risk of developing the condition.

An analysis of more than 80,000 Chinese participants found that all alcohol consumption slowed the decline of HDL cholesterol in the body.

A history of childhood adversity was associated with blood pressure dysfunction from childhood into adulthood.

Postmenopausal women whose weight fluctuated due to dieting had a significantly higher risk for death from sudden cardiac death and coronary heart disease.

In the United Kingdom, rates of the disease were highest for those born in December, while in Poland, rates were highest for those born in January.

Phthalates and bisphenol A metabolites were inversely associated with circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in adults exposed to these chemicals.

Researchers found increased fat mass and decreased lean mass at 4 weeks of treatment with estrogen and androgen withdrawal, respectively.

Patients with thyroid hormone levels on the high end of the normal range in this study were more than twice as likely to die of sudden cardiac arrest.

Physicians using gene expression classifier testing said that in 86% of cases, identifying a benign result through testing and potentially avoiding surgery improved patient safety.

Only one-third of adult endocrinologists reported always or often reviewing pediatric records.

Diabetes increased from 1.86 cases per 1,000 children to 2.82 per 1,000 over more than a decade.

Risk for vascular dementia is greater for women with type 2 diabetes than those without the disease.

Intranasal glucagon was effective in treating insulin-induced hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes.

Second primary malignancies among patients with post-Chernobyl papillary thyroid cancer include hematological malignancies, breast carcinoma, cervical carcinoma, and colon carcinomas.

Thyroid function improved after the researchers placed the child on levothyroxine and supplemented his diet with iodized salt and a multivitamin containing iodine.

Diabetes patients with both depression and stress symptoms had a greater risk for cardiovascular death than having either condition alone.

Children with diabetes who had a mother diagnosed with gestational diabetes or diabetes prior to pregnancy were diagnosed with diabetes at a younger age.

Genetic alterations were found in both cancerous and benign samples.

Patients had reduced left middle hippocampus and right anterior hippocampus activity when judging word pairs.

Use of high- and low-dose VB-111 led to 35% and 25% of patients reaching 6-month overall survival, respectively.

Results in this expanded series reaffirm the data in the pilot study and show a 5-year overall survival rate of 43%.

Patients with medullary thyroid cancer taking cabonzantinib lived more than 2 years longer if their tumors had a RET mutation.

New results show no significant associations between dietary habits and thyroid cancer risk.