Jun 25, 2021
By Jenny Seger, MD, FOMA, Diplomate ABOM, ABFM When it comes to topics about weight loss and obesity, there is a sea of misinformation. As healthcare professionals, we frequently encounter patients who have incorrect ideas and...
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After George Floyd’s death from a police officer kneeling on his neck, I began to reflect on how I can guide all my patients to be anti-racist. I decided to approach the topic in the same breath as counseling about safety, which...
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There are racial/ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic disparities apparent in access to SGLT2 inhibitor treatment for patients with diabetes, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Investigators assessed whether...
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Younger age at onset of T2D is associated with an increased risk for subsequent dementia, according to a study published in JAMA. Researchers examined whether younger age at T2D onset is more strongly associated with the...
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Study findings suggest that death or shift to normoglycemia from prediabetes appears to be more frequent than progression to full disease among older adults with prediabetes. C linicians may want to consider skipping a...
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A large, new study from the CDC has confirmed that obesity significantly increases the risk for hospitalization and death among those who contract COVID-19. The study serves as a reminder for healthcare providers that obesity...
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Hyperglycemia Predicts Severe COVID-19 in Patients With & Without Diabetes To test the hypothesis that hyperglycemia aff ects outcomes in patients with COVID-19, researchers examined the eff ect of admission glucose in a...
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During a recent PW Podcast episode, we spoke with Christie Befort, MD, Associate Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at the University of Kansas Cancer Center, and lead author of a study that assessed diff erent models of...
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Women are no more likely to use contraception after a diabetes diagnosis, according to a study published in Primary Care Diabetes. Researchers used private insurance data from nonpregnant women (aged 15-49; 2000 to 2014) to...
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Intensive lifestyle intervention may increase the risk for cardiovascular disease, or CVD, for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), overweight or obesity, and poor glucose control, according to a study published in Diabetes...
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During a recent PW Podcast episode, we spoke with micro- and plastic surgeon Minas Chrysopoulo, MD, FACS, who is also the founder of Toliman Health and author of the PW feature article “Empathy, The Best Medicine?” Following is...
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Large visit-to-visit A1C variability is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), according to a study published in Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism....
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Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a reduced risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which may be due to statin use, according to a study published in Rheumatology. Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study...
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Data indicate that, depending on the degree of obesity, patients with obesity who are infected with COVID-19 have a 1.3- to 7.4-fold increased risk of requiring critical care when compared with patients who aren’t obese,...
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Several months ago, the final ruling on the Warren vs Dinter malpractice case in Minnesota caused shockwaves throughout the medical community, raising concerns about physician liability expanding outside of the physician–patient...
Read MoreFeb 26, 2021
It has been recognized that homocysteine (Hcy) degradation needs B vitamins to serve as a prerequisite substrate donor (folate) or essential coenzymes (vitamin B6 and B12), and increase of Hcy has emerged as a risk factor for...
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Answer: The way they are taught is out of date. A guy named Steven Levitt is tired of helping his teenagers with their quadratic equations and imaginary zeros. Because they will never use these skills again, he thinks teaching...
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I take ER calls as a plastic surgeon. The ER doctor performs the primary repair on cases for which they determine don’t warrant calling me and tells the patients to see me for follow-up. If the patient never calls, am I liable...
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Diabetes is associated with increased odds of contracting COVID-19 and with increased COVID-19 mortality, whereas metformin treatment before diagnosis of COVID-19 is associated with reduced odds of related mortality, according...
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O ver the course of my 45 or so years in the business, I have noticed that many patient charts contain errors. I’ve never stopped to count them, but some investigators at five leading academic centers recently did. Of 22,889...
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