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Clinician Perspective: Examining the Link Between Antipsychotics and Diabetes
Endocrinologist Kevin M. Pantalone, DO, and psychiatrist Christian Kohler, MD, discuss the risk associated with the use of antipsychotic medications in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
How Many Chances Are Too Many? Treating Recurrent Infective Endocarditis in IV Drug Users
How many second chances should a drug user get? As many as it takes for us — physicians, society, government, and the healthcare system — to get it right.
Connective Tissue Diseases in Comorbid PAH: A Case for Separating SSc, SLE
Recent evidence suggests that systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus comorbid with pulmonary arterial hypertension should be considered separate diseases.
Improved Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Risk Prediction Tools Needed
The use of a risk calculator aimed at achieving a low-risk profile in PAH trials is discussed.
What a Building Contractor Taught Me About Informed Consent
Identifying a patient's preferences and goals leads to a care plan that can reflect those goals, and this may improve patient satisfaction.
The Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Taxation
Although cigarette taxes were supposedly implemented to encourage smokers to quit, they can have a disproportionate effect on people of low-income status.
Under the Microscope: Medicine's #MeToo Moment
No single solution to address sexual harassment in medicine exists, but physicians of all genders must come together to make progress.
Breathing New Life Into COPD and Asthma Therapy With Statins
Statins have anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative effects, which could reduce exacerbations of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Bully for Us: Confronting Medicine's Bullying Problem
The culture of bullying — widespread across the medical field — has been linked to poorer patient outcomes. So why can't physicians stop bullying in its tracks?
AHA Examines CVD and Breast Cancer Relationship
The American Heart Association has released a scientific statement examining the relationship between cardiovascular disease and breast cancer.
Blood Pressure Targets in Type 2 Diabetes: Latest Research
Experts call on healthcare providers to diligently focus on hypertension as an important comorbid condition that is strongly associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes, including death.
The Mounting Evidence Against Electronic Cigarette Use
Electronic cigarettes were once thought to be a helpful smoking cessation tool, but new evidence suggests they may be as if not more harmful than combustible cigarettes.
Antidiabetic Drugs and Cardiovascular Risk: Expert Perspectives
Although many of the newer antidiabetic drugs have demonstrated favorable outcomes in clinical trials, some have also been associated with increased risk of adverse CV outcomes.
The Little Guy vs Big Data: Is ICD-10 Coding Still Valuable in Health Care?
While ICD-10-CM may be an improvement on an old process, big data is the revolution that has the potential to change health care forever.
Nonpsychotic Cannabinoids in Hypertension: Benefits and Harms
Despite public perception that cannabis is "natural" and "safe," it has been implicated in many serious cardiovascular events, even in young, otherwise healthy people.
Semaglutide May Be Useful for Treating Obesity in People Without Diabetes
In combination with dietary and physical activity counseling, all semaglutide doses from 0.05-0.4 mg daily were tolerated and resulted in dose-related reductions in body weight among people with obesity without diabetes.
The Connection Between Cardiovascular Disease and Sleep Apnea: An Expert Interview
To examine the link between cardiovascular disease and sleep apnea, The Cardiology Advisor spoke with cardiologist Seth S. Martin, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA and sleep specialist Rachel Marie E. Salas, MD, FAAN.
Digital Adherence Devices: Preventing Strokes in Afib One Reminder at a Time
Using digital adherence devices to improve medication adherence in patients with atrial fibrillation may reduce the rate of ischemic strokes.
Beyond a Respiratory Disease: Cardiovascular Complications of Pneumonia
Pre-existing cardiovascular disease is the strongest risk factor for cardiovascular complications in patients with pneumonia.
Practicing Defensive Medicine to Avoid Litigation
Defensive medicine is known as a practice of recommending tests or treatments for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating litigation.
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- New Hypertension Guideline Discussed for Older Adults
- Celecoxib Associated With Lower MACE Risk Than Naproxen and Ibuprofen
- Composite Echo Score Predicts PH in Interstitial Lung Disease
- Brain Natriuretic Peptide Shows Promise as Biomarker in Group 1 PAH
- Fenofibrate Improves Cholesterol Levels in Type 2 Diabetes
- NSTEMI Risk for ICU Complications Predicted Using ACTION ICU Risk Score
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