CHICAGO—Catheter-based renal denervation significantly decreases blood pressure (BP) in patients with treatment-resistant essential hypertension, according to results released at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2010 and simultaneously published online in The Lancet.
Increased rates of retinopathy screening, foot examinations, and kidney function testing observed.
By six months, nearly 40% of patients had an HbA1c less than 7%, researchers reported.
ORLANDO, Fla.—Investigators have reported favorable results with a culturally sensitive diabetes education program “piloted” in diabetics of South Asian origin living in Queens, N.Y.
Patients with both heart failure and type 2 diabetes who are treated with a metformin-based strategy have a lower mortality risk than matched individuals not treated with anti-diabetic drugs, new findings suggest.
More than one third of patients eligible to receive the drugs actually do not get a prescription for them.
ORLANDO, Fla.—Despite a recent recommendation that hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) be used as a standard diagnostic test for diabetes, the proposed diagnostic criteria fail to pick up a significant number of cases of diabetes and prediabetes, investigators reported at the 70th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association.
These devices improved patient quality of life significantly better than conventional plastic stents.
BARCELONA—Researchers have documented a small but significant stage migration in metastatic bladder cancer between 1988 and 2006.
Most men who undergo radiation therapy (RT) for prostate cancer will develop anejaculation, a new study shows.
