Perelman School Of Medicine University Of Pennsylvania

White children with type 1 diabetes are twice as likely to initiate continuous glucose monitoring and four times as likely to persist with therapy at 1 year compared with Black and Hispanic children, regardless of insurance type, data show.

Patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases are less likely to avoid an office visit or laboratory tests due to COVID-19 and were more likely to have telehealth visits, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence 2020.

Patients with MS do not appear at higher risk for contracting COVID-19 nor for worsening complications should they contract the virus compared with the general population, according to Dina A. Jacobs, MD.

Although food insecurity in the U.S. has improved since 2011, adults aged younger than 65 years impacted by food security continue to experience elevated risk for CV death.

Joint care by a dermatologist, rheumatologist and other specialists can mitigate the “accelerated trajectory of comorbidities” that can often happen in patients with psoriatic disease, according to a presenter at ACR 2020.

Adults who received a once-weekly 2.4 mg dose of semaglutide in addition to intensive behavioral therapy lost more weight at 68 weeks than those who received placebo, according to trial data presented at ObesityWeek Interactive.

Exposure to diagnostic radiation below the waist may increase risk for testicular germ cell tumors, according to results of a case-control study published in PLOS One.

Localized radiation therapy appeared safe before treatment with chimeric antigen receptor T cells for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, according to study results presented at the virtual ASTRO Annual Meeting.

This year’s newly named ObesityWeek Interactive will highlight an all-virtual format, offering attendees the latest clinical trials, basic science and public policy research, along with a special focus on the impact of COVID-19.

In a real-world cohort of more than 2,000 U.S. patients with psoriatic arthritis, most had multidomain presentations, which were associated with worse disease activity, quality of life and work productivity, according to data published in The Journal of Rheumatology.