The Canagliflozin and Renal Endpoints in Diabetes with Established Nephropathy Clinical Evaluation (CREDENCE) Study Rationale, Design, and Baseline Characteristics

Published: American Journal of Nephrology
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Authors: Meg J Jardine 1 2 , Kenneth W Mahaffey 3 , Bruce Neal 1 4 5 6 , Rajiv Agarwal 7 , George L Bakris 8 , Barry M Brenner 9 , Scott Bull 10 , Christopher P Cannon 11 , David M Charytan 12 , Dick de Zeeuw 13 , Robert Edwards 10 , Tom Greene 14 , Hiddo J L Heerspink 13 , Adeera Levin 15 , Carol Pollock 16 , David C Wheeler 17 , John Xie 10 , Hong Zhang 18 , Bernard Zinman 19 , Mehul Desai 10 , Vlado Perkovic 1 , CREDENCE study investigators
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People with diabetes and kidney disease have a high risk of cardiovascular events and progression of kidney disease. Sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors lower plasma glucose by reducing the uptake of filtered glucose in the kidney tubule, leading to increased urinary glucose excretion.

Identification and management of prediabetes: results of the Latin America Strategic Prediabetes Meeting

Published: Pan American Journal of Public Health
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Authors: Patricio López-Jaramillo 1 , Ramfis E Nieto-Martínez 2 , Gestne Aure-Fariñez 3 , Carlos O Mendivil 4 , Rodolfo A Lahsen 5 , Ruy L Silva-Filho 6 , Luiz A Andreotti 7 , Mónica E Manrique 8 , Miguel A Pasquel-Andrade 9 , Ignacio Rangel 10 , Maricela Vidrio 11 , Rutila Castañeda 12 , Manuela Restrepo 13 , Miguel E Pinto 14
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To understand the status of prediabetes diagnosis and treatment in Latin America and to evaluate the use of metformin for diabetes prevention in this context.

Are Eating Disorders Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Published: Current Diabetes Reports
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 1 2 3 , Juan P González-Rivas 4 , José R Medina-Inojosa 5 , Hermes Florez 6 7
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Eating disorders (ED) affect energy intake modifying body fat depots. Prior evidence suggests that binge eating disorder (BED) and bulimia nervosa (BN) could increase the risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D), while anorexia nervosa (AN) could reduce it.

Transculturalizing Diabetes Prevention in Latin America

Published: Annals of Global Health
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 1 , Juan P González-Rivas 2 , Pablo Aschner 3 , Noël C Barengo 4 , Jeffrey I Mechanick 5
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Type 2 diabetes (T2D) imposes a heavy burden in developing countries, requiring effective primary prevention policies. Randomized clinical trials have identified successful strategies in T2D prevention. However, translating these results to real-life scenarios and adapting to ethnocultural differences is a major challenge.

Cardio-Metabolic Health Venezuelan Study (EVESCAM): Design and Implementation

Published: Invest Clin
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, María Inés Marulanda, Juan P González-Rivas, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Durán, Noel Barengo, Pablo Aschner, Mario Patiño, Luis López Gómez, Pedro Monsalve, Héctor Marcano, Hermes Florez
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LINK TO RESEARCH https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29939500/ ABSTRACT The EVESCAM (EstudioVenezolano de Salud Cardio-Metabólica) is the first national, population survey in Venezuela, designed to examine the prevalence of diabetes and cardio-metabolic risk factors...

Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

Published: The Lancet
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Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
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Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher.

Transcultural Endocrinology: Adapting Type-2 Diabetes Guidelines on a Global Scale

Published: Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 1 , Juan P González-Rivas 2 , Hermes Florez 3 , Jeffrey I Mechanick 4
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Type-2 diabetes (T2D) needs to be prevented and treated effectively to reduce its burden and consequences. White papers, such as evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPG) and their more portable versions, clinical practice algorithms and clinical checklists, may improve clinical decision-making and diabetes outcomes

A century of trends in adult human height

Published: Elife
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Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
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Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in South Korean women and Iranian men, who became 20.2 cm (95% credible interval 17.5-22.7) and 16.5 cm (13.3-19.7) taller, respectively. In contrast, there was little change in adult height in some sub-Saharan African countries and in South Asia over the century of analysis. The tallest people over these 100 years are men born in the Netherlands in the last quarter of 20th century, whose average heights surpassed 182.5 cm, and the shortest were women born in Guatemala in 1896 (140.3 cm; 135.8-144.8). The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.

Diabetes Care in Venezuela

Published: Annals of Global Health
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Authors: Ramfis Nieto-Martínez 1 , Juan P González-Rivas 2 , Marcos Lima-Martínez 3 , Victoria Stepenka 4 , Alejandro Rísquez 5 , Jeffrey I Mechanick 6
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The incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its economic burden have increased in Venezuela, posing difficult challenges in a country already in great turmoil.