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• CPAP improved glucose in patients with prediabetes, sleep apnea

• NIH project aims to improve, preserve insulin production

• Campaign to End Obesity: Prevention yields long-term savings

• NIH trial aims to delay, prevent type 1 diabetes

• When patients don’t care about their diabetes care

• Michael Kleerekoper, MD, MACE

• ‘Fit to Serve’ Act aims to reduce obese military recruits

• Study examines ethnic differences in metabolic risk factors, incident CHD

• Interchangeability of name brand vs. generic levothyroxine questionable

• Researchers assess multiple vitamin D doses in healthy breast-fed infants

• Case Challenges

• Hypertension is nothing to sneeze at

• Ronald Tamler, MD, PhD, MBA

• Cover Stories

• Experts skeptical of compounding pharmacy practices

• Editorial

• Heeding the call for action against diabetes, obesity

• Aaron Cypress, MD, PhD, MMSc

• Imaging Analysis

• When not to biopsy a hypervascular thyroid nodule

• Stephanie L. Lee, MD, PhD

• In the Journals

• Early maternal smoking linked to daughters’ risk for obesity, diabetes

• Depression linked to time of first severe hypoglycemic episode

• Childhood ADHD linked to obesity in adult men

• Exercise training reduced central adiposity, HbA1c

• Marijuana use led to lower fasting insulin levels

• Air pollution could increase children’s risk for insulin resistance

• High sodium levels persist in processed, restaurant foods

• Teriparatide/denosumab superior to monotherapy for increased BMD

• Obesity may increase risk for C. difficile

• Thyroid hormones closely related to cognition in adults

• Rapid decline in ovarian cancer rates coincides with decreased hormone therapy use

• Sodium, fluid restriction unnecessary for acute decompensated HF

• Hypothyroidism increased mortality risk in patients with congestive HF

• Patient education necessary to improve management of VVA

• Calcium intake may protect against mortality among women

• Fish oil increased adiponectin in humans

• VTE prevention may be unnecessary in bariatric surgery patients

• Weight gain influenced impulsive behavior

• Management of menstrual problems difficult in disabled adolescents

• Greater improvements in HbA1c, body weight with canagliflozin vs. sitagliptin

• Short stature genes identified in children

• Insurance savings incentive spurred walking among obese enrollees

• Graves' disease, toxic nodular goiter associated with increased risk for mortality

• Hyperthyroidism increased risk for all-cause mortality, circulatory disorders

• Physical activity improved sleep in women with vasomotor symptoms

• Acromegaly associated with negative effects on trabecular bone

• Perfluoroalkyl chemicals linked to hyperuricemia in children

• Gestational diabetes, maternal weight and race increased fetal growth

• CAC score predicted all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes

• Distal forearm fractures at young age increases risk for fragility fractures in men

• GLP-1 reduced endothelial dysfunction in type 1 diabetes

• Survey: Postmenopausal women prefer vaginal tablets to other therapies

• Meeting News Coverage

• Experts forecast increased obesity-related dementia in England

• Cardiovascular fitness in middle-aged men reduced cancer risk, mortality

• Lack of sleep linked to poor diets in children

• Adult endometrial cancer risk possibly linked to childhood BMI, height

• Reduction in portion sizes led to day-long reductions in energy intake

• Preschool obesity linked to safety of neighborhood, distance to parks

• Higher doses of vitamin D recommended for preterm infants

• Lurasidone lowered rates of weight, metabolic changes in bipolar depression

• Metreleptin improved metabolic parameters in children with lipodystrophy

• Pharmacology Consult

• Lorcaserin: New agent in the obesity armamentarium

• James Taylor, PharmD, CDE