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Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

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DDW 24. New research shows patients with MASLD and T2D who used GLP-1 agonists had a reduced risk of progression to cirrhosis and HCC vs non-users.

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Men with diabetes had a greater risk of CVD, lower limb and kidney complications, and diabetic retinopathy compared to women with diabetes.

In the phase 1b trial, treatment with once-weekly subcutaneous CT-388 led to a statistically significant mean placebo-adjusted weight loss of nearly 20%.

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Safety and HbA1c reduction with efsitora alfa dosed once weekly was comparable to both daily insulin degludec and daily insulin glargine, announced Lilly.

New research shows that menstrual irregularity is associated with a higher prevalence of cardiometabolic conditions in women, even in the absence of PCOS.

Analyses of the SELECT trial found mean weight loss of 10.2% sustained for 4 years and comparable CV benefit with weight loss greater or less than 5%, or even weight gain.

There have been 224 reported injuries as of April 15, 2024, the CDC said, but no reports of death related to the app intermittently crashing and rebooting.

Results also showed that older adults, men, and Black adults face an increased risk of advanced stages of CKM syndrome.

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Diagnoses of diabetes increased the most in South Dakota between 2018 and 2021 at 18.45%; diagnoses decreased the most in Hawaii at 15.61%. More, here.

Naim Alkhouri, MD, a transplant hepatologist and a resmetirom investigator, talks here about the life-changing impact the drug will have for all touched by MASH.

Primary care is where early detection and treatment of liver disease should begin and as Dr Alkhouri highlights here, all the right tools are already at hand.

The national study on the true prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease is essential to screening, prevention, and treatment efforts, says AFL CEO Stiehl.

Adults receiving semaglutide for the first time achieved weight loss of 14.3% at 12 months vs 10.6% among those who had previously taken a different antiobesity drug.

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Based on the classes' cardio- and renoprotective benefits, the ACP recommends SGLT2i and GLP1RA as second-line therapy in adults with T2D who are most likely to benefit.

Among persons with COPD whose BMI decreased over a 4-year follow-up, mortality risk rose 70% compared with those whose BMI remained the same, researchers reported.

Tirzepatide reduced OSA symptoms and body weight in study participants with severe OSA and obesity, regardless of use of positive airway pressure therapy.

Elevated lipoprotein(a) was independently associated with increased ASCVD risk across primary prevention subgroups including among those with LDL-C of 70 mg/dL.

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