Cardiometabolic Disorders News

High-risk patients with clinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or multiple CV risk factors benefit from more intensive lipid-lowering therapy, and clinicians should initiate combination treatment sooner, according to a speaker.

A database analysis of more than 3 million South Korean adults shows blood pressure variability is an independent predictor of fracture incidence during 7 years of follow-up, even among adults without hypertension.

Emerging data suggest immunotherapies and novel peptides that target gut inflammation could serve as complementary agents to available diabetes drugs to more effectively target cardiometabolic diseases, according to a speaker.

Multiple dietary pathways can lead to weight loss, and adherence to a weight-loss program is a better predictor for success than the type of eating pattern a person chooses, according to a speaker.

In this video exclusive, Yehuda Handelsman, MD, FACP, FNLA, FASCP, MACE, talks with Vivian A. Fonseca, MD, about new multispecialty practice recommendations developed by the Diabetes, CardioRenal Metabolic Diseases Task Force.

In this video exclusive, Yehuda Handelsman, MD, FACP, FNLA, FASCP, MACE, talks with Vivian A. Fonseca, MD, about new multispecialty practice recommendations for managing complex patients with diabetes and cardiorenal metabolic disorders.

Experts from the fields of diabetes, cardiorenal and metabolic disease, and obesity will discuss new research and present practice recommendations at the 19th World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease.

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy are equally effective at reducing hepatic steatosis, with an almost complete clearance of liver fat 1 year after the surgical procedures, according to data from a single-center study.

Arterial stiffness during adolescence may be a precursor of hypertension and obesity in young adulthood, researchers reported in Hypertension.

Postmenopausal women participating in 4 hours of standing plus 3 hours of walking per day had improved insulin sensitivity similar to those who engaged in 1 hour of moderate to vigorous exercise, according to study findings.