Idaho Diabetes and Endocrine Associates, P.A.

04/07/2024

Prescribing statins can be challenging as they may worsen diabetes, however, a thorough analysis reveals that their advantages significantly outweigh the potential drawbacks.

Statins cause a moderate dose-dependent increase in new diagnoses of diabetes that is consistent with a small upwards shift in glycaemia, with the majority of new diagnoses of diabetes occurring in people with baseline glycaemic markers that are close to the diagnostic threshold for diabetes. Import...

03/09/2024

Interesting article on antibiotic resistant bacteria and the diagnosis of same.

What the latest research and mounting clinical evidence indicates

03/02/2024

Understanding the advantages of statins

AbstractAims. Studies in primary healthcare (PHC) assessing the effect of primary prevention with statins on mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are scar

02/17/2024

Found on the net: “It is interesting that people only drop opiates, benzodiazepines, and stimulants in the sink. Nobody has ever dropped an SSRI, statin, or antibiotic.”

01/06/2024

I keep warning patients about Medicare Advantage Plans.

As enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans grows, so do concerns about how well the insurance works, including from those who say they have become trapped in the private plans as their health declines.