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The rate of diabetes is nearly three times higher in American Indians and Alaska Natives compared with white Americans, which increases their risk for CVD, according to an American Heart Association scientific statement.

Children with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, or PANS, exhibited cerebral microstructural differences in multiple brain structures, according to results of a case-control study published in JAMA Network Open.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Optometrists should know the available options for minimally invasive glaucoma surgery and their mechanisms of action, but they should not recommend a specific procedure to a patient when making a surgical referral, Constance O. Okeke, MD, MSCE, said here at the Optometric Glaucoma Society meeting, held prior to the American Academy of Optometry meeting.

ORLANDO — As the obesity epidemic continues to grow in the United States, it is critical that health care providers confront patient misconceptions about the causes of obesity and how the surplus of “nutritionally-bankrupt food” has contributed to a rise in such chronic diseases, according to a presentation at the Rheumatology Nurses Society Annual Conference.