Cardiovascular Risk
Watch experts discuss the risk assessment and management of heart failure in diabetes, with insights into epidemiology, screening and treatment strategies.
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What if your medical degree could launch more than a clinical career? In this candid and compelling read, Dr Jon Edelson shares his lessons for early-career clinicians ready to think beyond the bedside and explore the business of medicine.
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touchENDOCRINOLOGY was delighted to speak with Editorial Board member Dr Deep Dutta, a senior endocrinologist at the CEDAR Superspecialty Clinics, New Delhi, India. Throughout this interview, he summarizes the key messages from his late-breaking abstract session ‘Ailing Heart, Broken Vessels’, presented at the 60th European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) annual meeting in Madrid, Spain.
Hypertension affects up to 40% of the adult population worldwide,1 and according to the World Health Organization’s 2021 estimates, globally 1.28 billion adults between 18 and 79 years are affected.2 Of these, 85% have essential hypertension3 and the remainder have secondary hypertension, which is potentially ...
Dr. Carolina Solis-Herrera (Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health San Antonio (UTHSA) and Chief of Endocrinology Division) provides an overview of their presentation: Empagliflozin Improves Cardiopulmonary Function and VE/VCO2 in Patients with T2D and ...
The CLEAR Outcomes trial was a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial involving patients who were “statin-intolerant” and had, or were at high risk for, cardiovascular disease. The patients were assigned to receive oral bempedoic acid, 180 mg daily, or placebo. Dr. Steven ...
In the early 1970s, the discovery of statin by Dr Akira Endo changed the fate of cardiovascular disease prevention and the treatment of atherosclerosis. It was during this period that the rate-limiting step in cholesterol biosynthesis was revealed, and the ...
Chylomicronaemia refers to the pathological presence of large, circulating, intestinally derived chylomicrons.1 Clinical features of chylomicronaemia syndrome include lipaemic plasma, lipaemia retinalis, eruptive xanthomas, hepatosplenomegaly, neurological symptoms such as mental fog and mood changes and, most importantly, increased risk of ...
Diabetes increases the risk of cardiovascular (CV) and renal disease (CVRD). These become major causes of mortality in individuals with diabetes. In this touchENDOCRINOLOGY interview, Prof. Peter Rossing (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark) discusses the relationship between cardiovascular and renal ...
SUSTAIN 6 and PIONEER 6 investigated the effects of semaglutide versus placebo on major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE). The current post hoc analysis investigated the association between baseline kidney function and risk of MACE, and the effect of semaglutide on risk of ...
The ELIXA biomarker study evaluated protein biomarkers as clinical risk factors to identify people with type 2 diabetes and acute coronary syndrome who are at highest risk for cardiovascular (CV) outcomes and death. Professor Hertzel Gerstein (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada) ...
The clinical risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes and the link between the two is discussed by Professor Hertzel Gerstein (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada). Professor Hertzel Gerstein presented an abstract entitled ‘Cardiovascular Outcomes in People ...
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