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For the 8th year in a row, the Mediterranean diet has been named the best overall diet by the editors of U.S. News and World Report, the company announced.

In the past year, there have been a number of practice-changing trials and approvals for the management of hypertension.

Among patients with endogenous hypercortisolism, relacorilant improved cardiometabolic parameters such as blood pressure, HbA1c and weight, according to results of a long-term extension study.

Women with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction have sex-specific differences in presentation, diagnosis and treatment responses, highlighting the importance of proper diagnoses and guideline-directed medical therapy initiation.

The presence of Type D personality among patients with CAD or their spouses was associated with elevated risk for cardiac events, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

In patients with hypercortisolism and difficult-to-control type 2 diabetes, mifepristone lowered HbA1c at 24 weeks compared with placebo, researchers reported at World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease.

Diabetes and prediabetes were significantly associated with decreased life expectancy and increased risk for all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality among Chinese adults, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

Physicians employed under W-2 status are often presented with a variety of employer-sponsored benefit plans, which can provide significant tax and financial advantages.

A higher plant-to-animal protein ratio was associated with lower risks for CVD and CAD among adults in three ongoing U.S. prospective cohort studies, according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Most adults who lose weight as part of obesity therapy should not experience sarcopenia due to a decrease in fat-free mass, but more research is needed on the impact of GLP-1 receptor agonists and similar drugs on older adults.