Less need for diabetes, blood pressure, or cholesterol meds? Bariatric surgery patients with comorbidities including diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia who undergo gastric bypass may be less likely to require obesity-related medications than those who undergo sleeve gastrectomy, according to a recent study published in JAMA Surgery. Researchers found that, compared with sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass
SPRINT protocols achieved similar or lower therapeutic inertia for patients, regardless of race In clinical practice, the use of highly standardized blood pressure measurement and treatment protocols similar to those used in clinical trials may help clinicians reduce racial and ethnic disparities that may exist in the control of hypertension, according to results from an