Men's Health News

Maternal and paternal metformin use during conception did not increase the risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes, two studies in Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

The relationship between obesity and disordered eating behaviors represents a complex combination of psychological, physiological and environmental influences.

First-line prostate-specific antigen testing with second-line multiparametric MRI was a more cost effective screening strategy for prostate cancer than biparametric MRI as a first-line approach, a study showed.

Men with low testosterone concentrations had a higher risk for all-cause mortality, and those with very low testosterone also had an increased risk for CVD mortality, a study in Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

A noninvasive sensor may measure glucose values by using dielectric spectroscopy to scan radiofrequencies, according to a speaker at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology Annual Meeting.

The mantra “shorter is better” for antibiotic durations has become a point of importance in the infectious disease and antimicrobial stewardship realms.

BOSTON — Life’s Essential 8, a campaign led by the American Heart Association, is an assortment of interventions “we can all follow” and “associated with much better outcomes,” Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACP, MACC, FAHA, FHFSA, said.

BOSTON — The recently launched PREVENT risk scoring algorithm has the ability to enhance the prevention and management of CVD, according to Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACP, MACC, FAHA, FHFSA.

BOSTON — Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, or CKM, is a new term endorsed by the American Heart Association that reflects the interplay of metabolic and renal conditions that drive the risk for CVD.

BOSTON — A “laundry list of new trials” in cardiovascular medicine has led to “a decided portfolio of new ways of thinking, new interventions and a new potential to modify the natural history of CVD,” an expert said.