Category: Diabetes
Diabetes Drugs but No Diabetes
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Anchor lead: If you have heart failure but not diabetes, should you consider a diabetes drug? Elizabeth Tracey reports Medications for diabetes known as SGLT2 inhibitors have been shown to reduce hospitalization and death for people with one type of …
Heart Failure Benefit
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Anchor lead: Two diabetes drugs may benefit people with heart failure, Elizabeth Tracey reports A diabetes drug with the tongue-twisting name ‘empagliflozin’ reduced both hospitalizations for heart failure as well as cardiovascular death in people with one type of heart …
Metformin and Cognition
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Anchor lead: Can a diabetes drug help reduce Alzheimer’s risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Metformin is the first line medication for type 2 diabetes, and now an Australian study has shown that people taking it experience less Alzheimer’s disease compared to …
Cultural Messaging
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Anchor lead: What can be done about variable rates of diabetes among different ethnic groups? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’re Hispanic, you have over a one in five chance of developing diabetes, as is also the case for non-Hispanic blacks, …
Race and Diabetes
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Anchor lead: Different ethnicities have differing rates of diabetes, Elizabeth Tracey reports Your risk of developing type 2 diabetes may depend in part on your race or ethnicity, a recent study found. Rita Kalyani, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, …