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Can App Data Link Sleep and Chronic Disease?; AI Model to Manage Diabetes

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

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Heparanase inhibition as a systemic approach to protect the endothelial glycocalyx and prevent microvascular complications in diabetes

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which is detrimental to cardiovascular health, often leading to secondary microvascular complications, with huge global health implications. Therapeutic interventions tha.

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The Data For Weight Loss Medications Just Keeps Pouring In.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The reason excess weight is such big issues are the health consequences it confers with increased rates of diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis, obstructive sleep apnea, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and others, just to name a few. Avoiding diabetes and its precursor states inclduing insulin resistance is key.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC) To Host  DIETARY STRATEGIES FOR REVERSING TYPE 2 DIABETES: Advances, Perspectives, and Expert Discussions Live Webinar in Honor of the Late Dr. Sarah Hallberg

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

As an expert on metabolic control and type 2 diabetes (T2D), Dr. Hallberg once gave a TedTalk titled Reversing Type 2 diabetes starts with ignoring the guidelines , which quickly accumulated 8.6 Research now suggests the potential for diabetes reversal through other means that have only recently been embraced in official guidelines.

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Physiology Friday #228: Identifying Sleep Patterns that Influence Chronic Disease Risk

Physiologically Speaking

We talk about the ketogenic diet as a metabolic therapy for type 1 diabetes. Dozens if not hundreds of (albeit observational) studies have linked a short sleep duration to a number of health conditions including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Welcome to the Physiology Friday newsletter. hours per night.

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New initiative focuses on oral health clinicians in prevention and early detection of heart disease

American Heart News - Heart News

Research shows that chronic gum inflammation may be associated with other chronic diseases including coronary artery disease and diabetes.[1] DALLAS, JANUARY 16, 2024 — A patient’s oral health can be an indicator of overall health and well-being.

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How To Reduce The Risk Of Heart Disease If You Have Insulin Resistance.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

On the far end of that line is type two diabetes. Insulin resistance and diabetes may not ‘ cause ’ coronary artery disease, but they are huge accelerants. Compared to someone without type 2 diabetes, the person with type 2 diabetes has a risk that is tenfold higher 1. Let me be 100% clear, however.