Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JANUARY 26, 2024

Astronomically high insulin costs have led to complications and barriers to access for millions of Americans with diabetes. However, the complexities of state-regulated insurance, Medicare insulin caps, and insulin manufacturers’ patient assistance programs create a web of resources that is complicated to navigate.

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CardiacWire

MARCH 24, 2024

Less than two weeks after Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy gained expanded FDA approval for cardiovascular event risk reduction, CMS issued a new Medicare Part D guidance that allows coverage of obesity drugs for senior patients with “an additional medically accepted indication”… like cardiovascular disease.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

JULY 7, 2024

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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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background:Mortality doubles in stroke patients when Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is present. Payer sources were identified as: self-pay, Medicaid, Medicare, and Private/HMO. Differences in compliance rates were 10% for Medicare, 13.5% Medicaid, and 15.3% Findings: In the specified timeframe, 11.7%

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We longitudinally followed the patients by linking the registry data to the Center for Medicare&Medicaid Service (CMS) claims data. Patients with diabetes (aOR, 95% CI: 2.99, 1.25-7.15) Model fit was assessed using the Hosmer-Lemeshow test.Results:Among 142 eligible pre-ICH statin users (median age [IQR]: 77.5 [72-86]

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Journal of the American Heart Association

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Factors associated with a higher risk of potentially undiagnosed hypertension included individual characteristics (ages 40–84 compared with 18–39 years), clinical (lack of diabetes diagnosis) and health system factors (clinic site and being a Medicaid versus a Medicare beneficiary), and timing (readings obtained after the COVID‐19 Stay‐At‐Home Order (..)

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

A logistic regression model was adjusted for age, sex, race, mechanical ventilation, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, diabetes mellitus, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, congestive heart failure, Glasgow Coma Scale, ICH location (side and deep), ICH volume on CT, and presence of intraventricular hemorrhage. 2.03, p=0.022, Figure 1).

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