Obesity/Diabetes

Hypertension is common in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, and most frequently develops in older patients and those with traditional cardiovascular risk factors, according to data published in Rheumatology Advances in Practice.

In this video, David Nathan, MD, discusses the need to bring awareness to the risk factors that lead to the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

In this video, David Nathan, MD, discusses the side effects of weight loss caused by type 2 diabetes medications and the risks of prescribing these medications to patients without diabetes.

NEW ORLEANS — In patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes, bariatric surgery was found to be associated with fewer cases of diabetic retinopathy, according to a presenter at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.

Racial discrimination across generations — both overt and subtle — has had profound consequences for the health of Black Americans and other underrepresented populations.