Managing lipid levels in diabetes beneficial but requires clinical judgment
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Many physicians focus on aggressive modification of cardiovascular risk factors in their diabetic patients including treating elevated lipid levels and hypertension. At a symposium on lipid level targets for coronary heart disease in patients with diabetes, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, cautioned that clinical judgment is important in deciding what medications to prescribe them in this patient group.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2005
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Researches investigate factors linked to development of secondary diabetes
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Various studies show a higher rate of diabetes in the HIV-infected population. At a symposium 65th Scientific sessions of the American Diabetes Association in June 2005, the direct and indirect effects of antiretrovirals are described as significant contributors to insulin resistance in the presence of HIV infection.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2005
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