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Screen for PAD and Treat as CAD

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007

Screening for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) should be performed routinely in all elderly patients and younger ones with cardiovascular risk factors, and should be aggressively treated just as coronary artery disease (CAD).

Increased Risk Of Death In Patients Who Stop Using Statins After Stroke

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007

Patients who stop taking cholesterol-lowering drugs within a year of surviving a stroke had a two-fold increased risk of death, researchers reported.

Perindopril/Indapamide for All Type 2's?

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007

If the benefits seen in the study were applied to just half the population with diabetes worldwide, more than a million deaths would be avoided over five years.

Diabetes Can Impair Tuberculosis Treatment Response

Posted: Friday, September 07, 2007

Patients with tuberculosis and diabetes do not respond as well to tuberculosis therapy as those who are non-diabetic, Dutch researchers report.

Resting Heart Rate Directly Related to Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Posted: Friday, September 07, 2007

Higher resting heart rates are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and should be introduced into clinical practice according to a new review.

Depression Care Management Can Reduce Mortality in Older Patients With Diabetes

Posted: Friday, September 07, 2007

Depression care management may reduce 5-year mortality in older primary care patients with both depression and diabetes, according to the results of a new study.

AACE Publishes New Diabetes Clinical Practice Guidelines

Posted: Friday, August 31, 2007

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) announced the release of its medical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus. The Guidelines consider the clinical management of blood glucose, blood pressure, and abnormalities of lipid metabolism, and also address the prevention of diabetes and the prevention and treatment of diabetic complications.

Heart Attack Boosts Diabetes Risk and Diabetes Boosts Heart Attack Risks

Posted: Friday, August 31, 2007

Heart attack patients are up to four-and-a-half times more likely to develop diabetes compared with the general population and more than 15 times more likely to develop high blood sugar.

"We already know that diabetes predisposes one to heart attack, now we add that heart attacks predispose one to diabetes -- one nasty disease leads to another, and it's a two-way process."

Antioxidant Vitamins Don't Provide CardioVascular Protection

Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007

Taking vitamin C, vitamin E, or beta-carotene supplements had no apparent effect on the long-term risk of major cardiovascular events, including stroke or death, in a trial that randomized thousands of women considered at high cardiovascular (CV) risk and followed them for an average of about nine years.

Study Details Heart Risks to Diabetics

Posted: Thursday, August 23, 2007

From angina to severe heart attacks, the death rate is higher than for non-diabetics. 8.5 percent of people with diabetes who have severe heart attacks die within 30 days, compared to 5.4 percent of those who do not have diabetes.