Cardiometabolic Disorders News

Use of AI in medicine is growing quickly. Clinicians are eager to learn what the technology can do, and speakers at meetings across specialties are envisioning its effects — good and bad — in practice management and patient care.

Semaglutide and tirzepatide confer greater improvements in life expectancy than naltrexone/bupropion and phentermine/topiramate, but their estimated net price is too high for them to be cost-effective, researchers reported.

For kidney transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes, use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists was associated with improved long-term graft survival and overall survival, according to study data.

Intentional weight loss of 5% or more, coupled with reduced waist circumference was associated with lower risk for death from cancer, CVD or any cause among postmenopausal women followed for more than 18 years, data show.

TV watching in excess of 1 hour per day was associated with increased risk for atherosclerotic heart disease, independent of genetic risk for diabetes, according to new data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Slightly elevated blood glucose within a range of what is generally considered “normal” may be associated with increased risk for heart disease, researchers reported.

Firefighters who responded to the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, had higher levels of some endocrine-disrupting chemicals in blood and serum samples than other types of responders, researchers wrote in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

In this Healio Video Exclusive, Caroline T. Nguyen, MD, speaks with Donna Shoupe, MD, about the health benefits of menopausal hormone therapy for women.

Machine learning may be able to identify older adults most at risk for major adverse cardiovascular events by assessing abdominal aortic calcification in vertebral fracture assessment images, according to study data.