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The author reviewed the strategies of predicting and preventing type 1 diabetes across the different stages of development of the disorder. Not only can risk for type 1 diabetes be predicted, but the approximate age of diabetes onset in children can be ascertained.
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After 4 years, the intensive lifestyle intervention resulted in a greater likelihood of partial remission of type 2 diabetes.
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The risk of hip fracture goes up for about 6 weeks immediately after older people start taking antihypertensives.
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The FDA has approved bedaquiline, a first in class drug for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
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Neither physical therapy nor steroid injection improved primary outcomes of tennis elbow at 1 year; in fact, steroid injection was associated with worse outcome. Physical therapy was associated with some improvement in short-term outcomes and secondary measures.
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Peripheral Artery Disease: Helping Patients to Walk the Walk; Long-Term Functional Outcomes After Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment; A Relationship Between Nocturia and Hypertension
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Aspirin use and AMD risk; using NSAIDs and antihypertensive agents; and FDA actions.
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The 12-lead ECG and lead II rhythm strip shown above were obtained from a 55-year-old man with chest pressure.
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In this small pilot study of patients who sought help for insomnia, most of the awakenings were actually caused by sleep-disordered breathing.