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Hyaluronidase + Insulin Formulation Cuts Postprandial Glucose Excursions
Major Finding: Patients who received bolus hyaluronidase plus insulin had 82% fewer postprandial glycemic excursions than patients treated with...
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High-Dose Finasteride Halts Hair Loss in Women
Major Finding: Of premenopausal women with androgenetic alopecia, 58% reported major improvement in response to oral finasteride at 5 mg/day, and...
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Glucose Excursions Linked to Ventricular Tachycardia
Major Finding: During 5 days of ECG recording, 28 patients had an average of more than 3,600 ventricular extrasystoles; 17 patients had couplets,...
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Insulin Degludec Beats Sitagliptin in Type 2 Diabetes
Major Finding: Twenty-six weeks of insulin degludec treatment cut average HbA1c by 0.43% more than treatment with sitagliptin in type 2 diabetes....
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Gestational Diabetes Linked With Vitamin D Deficiency
Major Finding: For each standard-deviation reduction in first-trimester vitamin D (19 nmol/L), second-trimester gestational diabetes rose 40%.Data...
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Parents May Fail to Recognize Overweight, Obesity as Problem in Kids
Major Finding: zBMI and BMI percentile based on parental report vs. actual measurement were 0.55 vs. 0.76, and 65.12 vs.
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Pancreas/Kidney Graft Improves Survival for Type 1 Patients
Major Finding: Type 1 diabetes patients who got a combined pancreas/kidney transplant were 30% more likely to survive for 15 years than were...
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Bariatric Surgery May Benefit Extremely Obese Adolescents
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Intestinal Liner Improves Glycemic Markers in Type 2 Diabetes
Major Finding: An endoscopically placed duodenal-jejunal liner was associated with a reduction in HbA1c of more than 1% and significant...
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Seeking Quality in the Cornucopia of New Antidiabetes Drug Classes
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Obesity Raises Atrial Fibrillation Risk in Healthy Women
Major Finding: The risk of developing atrial fibrillation was doubled in obese women (HR, 2.04) and more than tripled in very obese women,...