Hyperuricemia Contributes to Faster Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression in Type 2 Diabetics6/13/2016 Initial hyperuricemia or need for allopurinol are independent risk factors for diabetic kidney disease (DKD) progression, according to a new study. Researchers categorized 422 patients who had diabetes for ≥15 years based on their albuminuria change or CKD stage, and followed them for a median of 43 months. Time-to-event analysis based on the presence or absence of initial hyperuricemia revealed significant differences in DKD progression, major adverse cardiovascular events, and death. The Journal of Diabetes and its Complications study also noted that serum uric acid levels in diabetics conferring protection against DKD progression might be lower than cutoffs for the general population.
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An international study’s findings indicate that standard and intensive blood pressure treatments were equally effective in the emergency treatment of acute intracerebral hemorrhage. Researchers assigned 1000 participants in the Antihypertensive Treatment of Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage II (ATACH II) trial with elevated BP following a stroke to either standard or intensive BP treatments. After 24 hours, there was no difference in hemorrhage growth rate, severe disability, or death between the groups; however, patients in the intensive treatment group had a slightly higher rate of serious adverse events in the 90 days following the stroke. The findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
HealthDay (6/3, Preidt) reported that researchers have found that overweight infants and toddlers in Britain “don’t eat more often than their normal-weight peers, but they do consume just a little bit more food at each meal.” The study, which examined data on more than 2,500 British children, was presented at the European Obesity Summit.
NBC News (6/7, Fox) reported on its website that “the US obesity epidemic continues to worsen,” with two reports indicating “that 40 percent of US women are obese, and American teenagers are...continuing to put on weight.” These “reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show that efforts to encourage Americans to lose weight – at least to stop putting on more weight – are having little effect.” Both reports were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
HealthDay (6/2, Preidt) reported, “Weight-loss surgery might significantly lower obese people’s risk of premature death,” research presented at the European Obesity Summit suggests. In the study, which involved 22,500 people who underwent weight-loss surgery between 2000 and 2011 and some 26,000 people who did not undergo weight-loss surgery, researchers found that “five years after surgery, the death rate was just over one percent for those who had weight-loss surgery and four percent among those in the non-surgery group.”
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