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.
Higher dietary potassium intake is associated with an increased risk of death in long-term hemodialysis (HD) patients, new findings suggest.
Aspirin use is associated with a significantly decreased risk of prostate cancer, with the greatest reduction in risk found with daily use of low doses of the drug, according to researchers.
C-reactive protein (CRP) predicts development of proteinuria in a screened cohort, according to Japanese researchers.
Obese patients who undergo radical prostatectomy (RP) for localized prostate cancer fare no worse than normal-sized patients with respect to perioperative complications and oncologic outcomes, new findings suggest.
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.
CHARLOTTETOWN, Canada—New findings from a Canadian study support the use of salvage cryotherapy for prostate cancer (PCa) patients who experience disease recurrence after radiation treatment.
