Tyler Rice

Colophonium, a fast-acting adhesive and known sensitizing allergen, may cause dermatologic reactions in children using devices to manage diabetes.

Researchers found that mean hepatic enzyme levels were jointly and significantly associated with poorly controlled T2D.

Follicle-stimulating hormone levels may independently predict ongoing or imminent bone loss during the menopausal transition.

Young adults with diabetes who experience an acute myocardial infarction tend to see significant health status improvements in the subsequent year and are not significantly worse off than patients who did not have diabetes at the time of acute MI.

Researchers conducted a post hoc analysis of the Look AHEAD trial to investigate a potential heterogeneous effect of an intensive lifestyle weight loss intervention in T2D.

Patients with osteoporosis who maintain good oral hygiene can use zoledronic acid to effectively prevent symptomatic periodontal disease and tooth loss.

The advisory from the American Heart Association aggregates the research performed thus far on the use of omega-3 fatty acids in hypertriglyceridemia and recommends a dose of 4 g/d to observe a therapeutic effect.

Primary care diabetes prevention programs that promote physical activity become less effective when patients experience depressive symptoms.

Triac normalized T3 concentrations and improved measures of body weight and cardiovascular function in patients with monocarboxylate transporter 8 deficiency.

Premenopausal women who undergo prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy are especially prone to postoperative bone loss, which may be mitigated by hormone replacement therapy.

Men with elevated serum sex hormone-binding globulin or lower total testosterone levels might be at greater risk for cardiovascular disease.

For women with gestational diabetes, conducting an oral glucose tolerance test during hospitalization for delivery might be useful to detect postpartum diabetes risk.

Maternal blood glucose levels and body mass index are the most important modifiable risk factors for stillbirth in women with pre-pregnancy diabetes.

Testosterone therapy has been found to improve sexual function in postmenopausal women, but the lack of approved formulations for women in any country remains a major barrier to treatment.

Older women with significant abdominal aortic calcification are more likely to experience incident clinical fractures.

Plant-based dietary patterns are associated with lower risk for type 2 diabetes.

Therapeutic weight loss is significantly associated with favorable hemodynamic effects in patients with obesity without a history of heart failure.

Patients with type 2 diabetes who have had a cardiovascular event are not adequately prescribed glucose-lowering medications that might prevent subsequent CV events.

Galectin-3 and S100A9 levels were overexpressed in tumors with PCDM and dose-dependently suppressed insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in muscle cells.

After an acute coronary syndrome event, alirocumab may offer greater risk reductions for future cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes vs those without diabetes, according to study results published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. In the ODYSSEY OUTCOMES trial (Evaluation of Cardiovascular Outcomes After an Acute Coronary Syndrome During Treatment With Alirocumab; ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:…

Evidence supports changing clinical practice guidelines to recommend formal weight loss programs for people with NAFLD.

In a cohort of premenopausal women with PCOS, metformin treatment for 3 months was associated with reduced bone turnover.

Critically ill patients who maintained blood glucose levels between 70 to 140 mg/dL at least 80% of the time had increased survival compared with those who did not.

Greater organ-absorbed doses of radioactive iodine seem to be positively associated with risk for death from solid cancer in patients with hyperthyroidism.

A major osteoporotic fracture was recorded in 37.5% of participants, with incidence rates of 43%, 29.2%, and 33.1% in the RA, SLE, and primary Sjögren syndrome groups, respectively.

Elderly women with osteoporosis may still be good candidates for drug treatment to prevent incident hip fracture despite competing mortality risk.

Bone turnover markers and Trabecular Bone Score might be useful tools to identify transmenopausal women who are at greater risk for bone loss.

A majority of older adults with prediabetes remain stable or revert to normoglycemia over the long term.

Mifepristone may be an effective alternative to adrenalectomy in patients with hypercortisolism caused by primary bilateral macronodular adrenal hyperplasia.

Researchers examined the association between cholesterol metabolism and sciatic nerve alterations in T2D.