Cardiometabolic Disease

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, discusses two hot topics in cardiometabolic medicine: icosapent ethyl and sotagliflozin.

Prevention of heart disease will do more good in the long run than procedures to treat advanced heart disease, the incoming president of National Lipid Association said at the NLA’s Scientific Sessions.

In this Healio video exclusive, Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, discusses the connection between psoriasis and cardiovascular outcomes.

Endocrinology providers and researchers will gather in Boston beginning Saturday as the Endocrine Society holds its 2024 annual meeting.

ATLANTA — In this Healio video exclusive, Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD, discusses a new American Heart Association policy statement that highlights the importance of considering cardiometabolic health in urban planning.

Patients with long COVID showed no difference in fatigue after exercise vs. those without long COVID, nor did their symptoms significantly worsen, suggesting that “cautious exercise” could help rehabilitation, a randomized study showed.

Cities designed with sustainable measures such as green infrastructure, access to safe open spaces and healthy foods can directly improve the cardiometabolic health of the people who live and work in those urban areas, researchers reported.

Adults who consume non-sugar sweeteners have differences in gut and stool microbiome compositions compared with those who do not consume non-sugar sweeteners, according to study findings published in iScience.

Intervening for type 2 diabetes, BMI, smoking, HDL cholesterol level and systolic blood pressure may reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes tied to lower educational levels, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Adults who reported high levels of perceived stress, particularly throughout early childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, were much more likely to develop cardiometabolic risk factors than those with low perceived stress, data show.