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How To Reverse Diabetes.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

In the US, over 45% of the population has either diabetes or pre-diabetes 1. The absolute majority of those with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, which is usually associated with excess visceral fat and poor cardiometabolic health. Because a diagnosis of diabetes is very likely to shorten your life. Pre-Diabetes.

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GLP-1 Spending Hit $5.8 Billion in 2022 for U.S. Adults Without Diabetes

Med Page Today

adults without diabetes using GLP-1 receptor agonists more than tripled from 2018 to 2022, boosting annual spending from $1.6 (MedPage Today) -- The number of U.S. billion to $5.8 billion, survey data showed. Based on an unweighted sample of nearly.

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Risk factors for fluorouracil-induced cardiotoxicity in patients with gastrointestinal tumor

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

ObjectiveTo explore the risk factors for cardiotoxicity in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) tumors treated with fluorouracil drugs.MethodsThis study included patients with GI tumors who received fluorouracil at our hospital between January 2018 and April 2022. The demographic and clinical characteristics were collected.

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Trends in direct health care costs among US adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with and without diabetes

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Objective Population-based national data on the trends in expenditures related to coexisting atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD) and diabetes is scarce. Individuals with diabetes had a 1.5-fold fold higher mean expenditure that those without diabetes. individuals aged ≥ 18 years.

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The association between TyG and all-cause/non-cardiovascular mortality in general patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus is modified by age: results from the cohort study of NHANES 1999–2018

Cardiovascular Diabetology

The prognostic value of triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index in general type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients is still unclear. Therefore, we aimed to determine the associations between TyG and all-cause/cause-.

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Joint assessment of abdominal obesity and non-traditional lipid parameters for primary prevention of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: insights from the China health and retirement longitudinal study 2011–2018

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Obesity and abnormal lipid metabolism increase the risk of various cardiometabolic diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. However, the impact of abdominal obesity (AO) and non-traditional lip.

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Gender differences in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among US adults: from NHANES 2005–2018

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Methods Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted between 2005 and 2018 were analyzed. This study aims to identify the sources of gender disparities in mortality rates and quantify the extent to which these factors mediate the gender differences in all-cause mortality. 1.68] and 1.60 (95%CI:1.43–1.80)