{"id":1404,"date":"2010-01-13T17:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wednesday-january-12-roundup-diabetics-in-syntax-obesity-in-the-usa\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:06","slug":"wednesday-january-12-roundup-diabetics-in-syntax-obesity-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/01\/13\/wednesday-january-12-roundup-diabetics-in-syntax-obesity-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday January 12 Roundup: Diabetics in SYNTAX, Obesity in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Diabetics in SYNTAX:<\/strong>\u00a0The one-year results of the subset of diabetic patients enrolled in the SYNTAX trial, the ongoing trial comparing PCI to CABG in patients with left main or multivessel disease for five years, were\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/content.onlinejacc.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/j.jacc.2009.09.057v1\">published in the <em>Journal of the American College of Cardiology<\/em>.<\/a> Although the investigators found an increase in revascularizations in the PCI arm, there were no significant differences in the safety endpoint of death, stroke, or MI.\u00a0In an <a href=\"http:\/\/content.onlinejacc.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/j.jacc.2009.09.056v1\">accompanying editorial<\/a>, Harold Dauerman asks whether\u00a0drug-eluting stents have \u201cremoved the \u2018death penalty\u2019 associated with diabetes and multivessel PCI?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obesity in the USA:<\/strong> The good news is that the rate of increase for obesity in the US appears to be stabilizing. The bad news, of course, is that the overall prevalence of obesity remains high: in 2007-2008 it was 33.8%. The new findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/2009.2014\">published online today in <em>JAMA<\/em><\/a>. J Michael Gaziano, in <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/2009.2025\">an accompanying editorial<\/a>, calls for &#8221;\u00a0a massive public health campaign to raise awareness about the effects of overweight and obesity.&#8221; Another <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/2009.2012\">NHANES study<\/a> reports on trends in children and adolescents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetics in SYNTAX:\u00a0The one-year results of the subset of diabetic patients enrolled in the SYNTAX trial, the ongoing trial comparing PCI to CABG in patients with left main or multivessel disease for five years, were\u00a0published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Although the investigators found an increase in revascularizations in the PCI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}