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Young people with youth-onset type 2 diabetes are more likely to have comorbidities if they have a higher HbA1c and greater glucose variability after diagnosis, according to findings from the TODAY study.

Diabetes has been a big part of both the professional and personal life of Kenneth Moritsugu, MD, MPH, FACPMFAADE, retired Rear Admiral for the U.S. Public Health Service and former Surgeon General of the United States.

Community-dwelling older adult smokers for whom annual low-dose CT screening is not recommended had a 10-fold higher risk for lung cancer compared with never smokers, according to study results.

Among patients hospitalized with moderate COVID-19, those who received aspirin on the first day of hospitalization had a significantly lower risk for 28-day mortality than those who did not, according to a recent observational cohort study.

Cardiologists must emphasize the benefits of lifelong care early for adolescents and emerging adults with congenital heart disease, working with families to provide support based on individual needs, according to a new scientific statement.

Cities that adopt inclusionary zoning policies benefiting low-income households may improve the municipal-level CV health of their residents, according to research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Young children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes were more likely to use continuous glucose monitoring regularly if they had private insurance, according to findings published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics.

There was a significant increase in the number of cases of new-onset type 2 diabetes among children during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among boys and Black youths, according to a speaker.

A “marked decrease” in respiratory virus detections correlated with a 79% reduction in ambulatory antibiotic prescribing rates for respiratory tract infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers of a pre-post study wrote.

April 22 is Earth Day, an annual event to highlight the importance of clean air, water and land that was first observed 51 years ago, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.