Gabriella Gruden

TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.

TL;DR: In this article, a Bayesian hierarchical model was used to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control).

TL;DR: In this article, the miRNA expression in urinary exosomes from type 1 diabetic patients with and without incipient diabetic nephropathy was assessed and miR-145 levels were increased and this was paralleled by miR145 overexpression within the glomeruli.

TL;DR: In this long-term, pragmatic trial, incidence of cardiovascular events was similar with sulfonylureas and pioglitazone as add-on treatments to metformin, although piog litazone was associated with fewer hypoglycaemia events.

TL;DR: Data show that type 2 diabetic patients with nonalbuminuric renal impairment exhibit distinct clinical features, suggesting predominance of macroangiopathy as underlying renal pathology, and that this phenotype is associated with significant CVD burden.