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TNFR1 shown as marker for mortality risk in type 2 diabetes with kidney disease

Posted on: 20/03/2014 - 21:05

Tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 is an effective marker for all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes with kidney disease, according to results of a French study. Additionally, TNFR1 was found to add...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Acute kidney dysfunction related to nonviral comorbidities in chronic HCV

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 13:25

Among patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection, viral factors such as viral load and HCV genotype "did not play any significant role in the causation of acute kidney dysfunction...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Acute kidney dysfunction related to nonviral comorbidities in chronic HCV

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 13:25

Among patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection, viral factors such as viral load and HCV genotype "did not play any significant role in the causation of acute kidney dysfunction...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Curb vaccine-preventable diseases in diabetes patients

Posted on: 25/02/2014 - 14:10

SAN FRANCISCO – Patients with diabetes have an increased incidence for a number of infections, but vaccine-preventable diseases need not be among them. "In the risk/benefit category, there’s a...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

NIH and pharma partner on RA, lupus, diabetes, Alzheimer’s research

Posted on: 14/02/2014 - 15:35

The National Institutes of Health, 10 biopharmaceutical companies, and several nonprofit organizations have partnered to transform the current model for identifying and validating the most promising...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

FDA to probe saxagliptin’s heart failure risk

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 20:15

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will investigate the possible association between treatment with the type 2 diabetes drug saxagliptin and an increased rate of hospitalizations for heart failure...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Too much dietary sugar raises CVD mortality

Posted on: 03/02/2014 - 21:00

Excess intake of sugar in the diet significantly raises the risk of cardiovascular mortality, independently of other risk factors, according to an analysis of National Health and Nutrition...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

‘Obesity paradox’ refuted

Posted on: 15/01/2014 - 22:00

Mortality is not lower among adults with diabetes who were overweight or obese at diagnosis than among those who were of normal weight, as has been suggested by proponents of the "obesity...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Postpartum care after gestational diabetes is preconception care as well

Posted on: 07/01/2014 - 20:05

WASHINGTON – The rise in gestational diabetes cases demands new strategies for active postpartum care that will not only assist with prevention of type 2 diabetes, but will also prepare women for...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

‘JNC 8’ relaxes elderly systolic target below 150 mm Hg

Posted on: 18/12/2013 - 18:25

The group of experts who had constituted the JNC 8 panel, a team assembled in 2008 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to update official U.S. hypertension management guidelines, set the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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