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DASH Diet for Diabetes With Low Sodium Reduces BP in Those With Diabetes

Physician's Weekly

WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension for Diabetes (DASH4D) diet with lower sodium is tied to clinically meaningful blood pressure reduction in people with diabetes, according to a study published online June 9 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Pilla, M.D., Pilla, M.D.,

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FDA Approves Polypill Widaplik for Hypertension

Physician's Weekly

Widaplik is not to be coadministered with aliskiren in patients with diabetes, and a boxed warning indicates discontinuation of Widaplik during pregnancy. Additionally, Widaplik is contraindicated in patients with anuria or known hypersensitivity to other sulfonamide-derived drugs.

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Adherence to Healthy Diet Improves Cardiometabolic Risk, Even Without Weight Loss

Physician's Weekly

WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A healthy diet improves cardiometabolic risk factors, even if not associated with weight loss (WL), according to a study published online June 5 in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Anat Yaskolka Meir, Ph.D.,

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Hyperinsulinemia Linked to Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

Physician's Weekly

TUESDAY, June 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In premenopausal women, hyperinsulinemia is associated with abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), with body mass index (BMI) playing a role in this association, according to a study published online June 3 in Menopause. Salcedo, D.O.,

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.