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Mashup Score: 1Spotlight on ACP recommendations - 3 day(s) ago
The College recommended adding a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist to metformin and lifestyle modifications after reviewing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of available medications.
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Mashup Score: 0Test yourself - 3 day(s) ago
This month’s quiz asks readers to evaluate an asymptomatic 37-year-old man whose hemoglobin A1c level is 6.3% and fasting plasma glucose level is 135 mg/dL.
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Mashup Score: 1Highlights - 3 day(s) ago
Patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity who worked out in the evening had greater reductions in risk for mortality and cardiovascular and microvascular disease than those who exercised in the morning or afternoon, a retrospective study found.
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Mashup Score: 1Differentiating type 1 from type 2 diabetes in adults - 4 day(s) ago
Type 1 diabetes can be challenging to diagnose after childhood in part because the overt symptoms tend to be milder.
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Mashup Score: 0Test yourself - 5 day(s) ago
A 45-year-old woman is evaluated at follow-up for abnormal alkaline phosphatase levels on three previous blood tests. She has mild pruritus. She has no family history of liver disease. Following a physical exam and other tests, what is the most appropriate diagnostic test to perform next?
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Mashup Score: 0Patient safety - 6 day(s) ago
Seven percent of outpatients experienced at least one adverse event, with drug events being the most common (63.8%), followed by health care-associated infections (14.8%) and surgical or procedural events (14.2%), according to an analysis of Massachusetts clinics.
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Mashup Score: 0Making strides to stamp out HCV - 11 day(s) ago
While there’s a goal of eliminating viral hepatitis globally by 2030, reports indicate a disproportionately high rate of infection and death in the United States among medically underserved populations.
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Mashup Score: 0Continue BP control, maintain benefits - 12 day(s) ago
Helping patients maintain normal blood pressure over the long haul pays off in cardiovascular and other health benefits, yet studies show that U.S. adults continue to backslide.
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Mashup Score: 0Hyperlipidemia - 12 day(s) ago
A trial alert nudged clinicians seeing patients with very high-risk atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease to intensify therapy by prescribing a high-intensity statin, adding ezetimibe, or prescribing a proprotein subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitor.
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Mashup Score: 0Alcohol use - 12 day(s) ago
Barriers to treating alcohol use disorder need to be removed, more needs to be done to reduce binge drinking and heavy drinking, and policymakers and public health officials have a critical role to play on this issue, ACP said.
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. @ACPIMPhysicians releases guideline, systematic reviews on newer type 2 diabetes medications https://t.co/KwqEKU5kXP