IMN || Diabetes

Obesity prevalence steady between 2003 and 2012

Posted on: 25/02/2014 - 21:00

The prevalence of obesity has not changed appreciably among children or adults in the United States between 2003 and 2012, the most recent year for which data are available, according to a report...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology
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

Thyroid cancer rise mostly overdiagnosis

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 21:10

The incidence of thyroid cancer has nearly tripled in the United States since the 1970s. However, this is mainly an epidemic of diagnosis, researchers reported. Small papillary cancers are not...

Field of Interest: Oncology
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

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