Heart failure is the most common cause of hospitalizations among elderly Americans, and despite much medical and scientific progress, it remains a source of substantial suffering, expense, and caregiver burden. Palliative care can improve quality of life, symptoms, and functioning for people with…
Heatstroke is the most hazardous condition in a spectrum of illnesses progressing from heat exhaustion to heatstroke, in which a shared finding is hyperthermia (i.e. the rise in core body temperature when heat accumulation overrides heat dissipation during exercise or exposure to environmental heat…
Observational cohort studies have shown increasing risks of both macrovascular and microvascular events with increasing average blood glucose levels. Trials involving patients with type 1 diabetes and patients with new-onset type 2 diabetes showed that improving glucose control reduced the…
In randomized trials, intensive glycemic control has not resulted in lower risks of major cardiovascular events or death than standard glycemic control among patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes during intervention periods. However, extended follow-up in some of these trials indicates that…
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