Cardiometabolic Disorders News

PHILADELPHIA — CVD trends, particularly for HF, have gotten worse since 2011, and a way to address them may be to focus on health equity and begin prevention early, a speaker said at the Heart in Diabetes CME conference.

PHILADELPHIA — Black patients are highly likely to benefit from prescription of SGLT2 inhibitors for HF, but they are less commonly prescribed them compared with other patients, according to a speaker.

PHILADELPHIA — Black patients are highly likely to benefit from prescription of SGLT2 inhibitors for HF, but they are less commonly prescribed them compared with other patients, according to a speaker.

Experts across the cardiorenal metabolic specialties will again convene to present innovative research on the relationship between type 2 diabetes, CVD and renal disease, including controversial debates and panel discussions.

Among patients with type 2 diabetes and normal thyroid function, thyroid hormone levels were linked to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, suggesting assessment of these hormones might be beneficial for disease prevention and treatment.

ATLANTA — Adults with overweight or obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, had a significant reduction in liver fat and inflammation with daily subcutaneous growth hormone administration, according to a speaker.

Both lower HbA1c and lower blood pressure were protective cardiovascular health metrics for adults with type 1 diabetes, according to findings published in Diabetologia.

Exposure to certain endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers, heightened the risk for gestational diabetes in a recent study.

ATLANTA — Use of empagliflozin was associated with a nearly 40% reduced risk for nephrolithiasis among people with type 2 diabetes, according to data presented at ENDO 2022.

In patients with diabetes and cancer treated with anthracyclines, SGLT2 inhibition was associated with fewer cardiac events during 1.5 years of follow-up, researchers reported.