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...MANNHEIM, Germany -- Contrary to expectations, individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) have rates of overweight and obesity that mirror... ...the general population ― rates that appear to have a substantial impact on these patients" already increased risk of coronary artery disease, a... ...Amany Elshorbagy, DPhil, Cardiovascular Epidemiologist, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom... ...Catapano's comments were echoed by session co-chair Ulrike Schatz, MD, leader of the Lipidology Specialty Department at the University Hospital Carl...

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...Amelie Koch, a medical student at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues.... ...Their findings were published online May 24 in the European Heart Journal.... ..., of Indiana University School of Public Health, and Kirkpatrick, of Idaho State University.... ...Mellor, PhD, a registered dietitian and senior lecturer, Aston Medical School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK....

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...Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, PhD Dear colleagues, I'm Christoph Diener from the Faculty of Medicine at the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany.... ...Professor, Department of Neurology, Stroke Center-Headache Center, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, GermanyDislcosure: Hans-Christoph Diener, MD... ...I am Christoph Diener from the Faculty of Medicine at the University Duisburg-Essen. Thank you very much for watching and listening....

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...For the week ending May 26, 2023, John Mandrola, MD, comments on the following news and features stories.... ...Last week, I closed the podcast by saying I'd have some new studies from the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) meeting.... ...We saw beautiful case reports in New Orleans. The proponents are enthusiastic, their pictures lovely, their stories compelling.... ...authors, a first-in-human experience with the Impella 5 series devices for support during ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation in patients with heart...

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...The endocrinology and nephrology departments at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation Hospital in Madrid sponsored a conference titled "Microbiota in Modern... ...MADRID, Spain -- Healthy lifestyle habits are the most powerful weapon we have to protect against damage to our microbiota, which is increasingly... ...and nutrition at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation.... ...Emilio González Parra, MD, PhD, associate department head of nephrology at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation, and co-organizer of the conference, said,...

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..., MD, chair of the Italian Interdisciplinary Society of Vulvology, at the annual conference of the Italian Society of Gender Medicine in Neurosciences... ..."There are probably many more women who suffer from it who don't talk about it out of shame, because they feel "wrong,'" said gynecologist Pina Belfiore... ...For information on services available in specific regions, you can contact the Italian Interdisciplinary Society of Vulvology," said Belfiore.... ...For this purpose, low-dose antidepressant or antiepileptic drugs are used," said Belfiore."...

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...dispatcher," study co-author, Jonathan Wenstrup, MD, Copenhagen University Hospital–Herlev and Gentofte & Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services,... ...Denmark, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.... ...Wenstrup presented the study on May 24 at the European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) 2023 in Munich, Germany.... ...The study was funded by Trygfonden (a nonprofit foundation in Denmark), as well as the University of Copenhagen, University Hospital Copenhagen–Herlev...

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...Drug Administration on May 26  for reducing the risk of cardiovascular death, hospitalization for heart failure, and urgent heart failure visits... ...Sotagliflozin, a novel agent that inhibits sodium-glucose cotransporter (SGLT) 1 as well as SGLT2, received marketing approval from the US Food and... ...Officials at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed and will market sotagliflozin under the trade name Inpefa, said in a press release... ...cause, number of heart failure events and time to first heart failure event, or a 5 point or greater difference in change from baseline in the Kansas...

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...In late April, the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company added another oncology drug to its formulary: This addition brings the total number of generic... ...cancer drugs sold through Cuban's online pharmacy to 11.... ..."People can see exactly what they are paying for," Chino, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, told Medscape Medical News.... ...Shortly after Chino applauded Cost Plus for adding capecitabine to its formulary, Razelle Kurzrock, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee...