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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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Trends in prognosis and use of SGLT2i and GLP-1 RA in patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Objective To explore trends in prognosis and use of glucose-lowering drugs (GLD) in patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD). Research design and methods All patients with diabetes and CAD undergoing a coronary angiography between 2010 and 2021 according to the Swedish Angiography and Angioplasty Registry were included.

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AFib Might Be Far More Common Than We Think

CardiacWire

UCSF researchers analyzed medical records from 29M adults who received hospital-based care in California from 2005 to 2019 (51yr avg. AFib rates increased dramatically during the study period, from 4.49% in 2005-2009 to 6.82% in 2015-2019. When these results are applied across the U.S., adult population.

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Prevalence and treatment of diabetes and pre-diabetes in a real-world heart failure population: a single-centre cross-sectional study

Open Heart

Aims The aim of this study was to investigate a real-world heart failure (HF) cohort regarding (1) prevalence of known diabetes mellitus (DM), undiagnosed DM and pre-diabetes, (2) if hf treatment differs depending on glycaemic status and (3) if treatment of DM differs depending on HF phenotype.

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Heart disease in pregnancy and risk of pre-eclampsia: a Swedish register-based study

Open Heart

Pre-eclampsia and heart failure have common risk factors, including hypertension, obesity and diabetes. Hypertension and diabetes were independent risk factors for pre-eclampsia. It is not known whether heart failure increases the risk of pre-eclampsia.

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Abstract WP235: Cannabis Use Disorder in Elderly Stroke Survivors (?65 Years) Elevates the Risk of Stroke Recurrence: An Analysis From the National Inpatient Sample (2016-2019)

Stroke Journal

Comorbidities like diabetes, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and hypothyroidism were less common in CUD patients, but substance abuse and mental health disorders were more prevalent. From 2016 to 2019, CUD among stroke survivors rose from 0.24% to 0.37%. vs. 45.1%), with a larger representation of black individuals (30.8% vs. 28.4%).

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Abstract WP278: Trends in GLP1RA and SGLT2i Use in Ischemic Stroke Patients With Diabetes

Stroke Journal

Background:The current AHA stroke prevention guidelines give Class 1 recommendations that patients with AIS and diabetes should receive glucose-lowering agents with cardiovascular benefit to reduce risk of MACE. Patients were identified to have diabetes as derived by the Charlson Comorbidity Index ICD 10 codes E10 through E14.