Weight loss is not enough to treat dyslipidemia in women

Published Date: 06 Mar 2023

Obesity continues to exist around the world despite the risk to health and death from illness and disease.

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Structural changes in pulmonary blood vessels correlate with cardiac dysfunction and elevated pulmonary pressure in older adults, study finds.

Doctors once bonded over shared meals. Today, lunch is a rushed snack between patients — or nothing at all. These doctors say we lost something vital along the way.

New CKM guidelines urge clinicians to stop treating the heart, kidneys, and metabolism separately and instead manage risk through coordinated, stage-based care.

People taking statins have about half the rate of sight-threatening proliferative vitreoretinopathy and need another operation after surgery to fix retinal detachment.

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