Mitchel is a reporter for MDedge based in the Philadelphia area. He started with the company in 1992, when it was International Medical News Group (IMNG), and has since covered a range of medical specialties. Mitchel trained as a virologist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, and then worked briefly as a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital before pivoting to journalism as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 1980. His first reporting job was with Science Digest magazine, and from the mid-1980s to early-1990s he was a reporter with Medical World News. @mitchelzoler
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Big data ‘clinch’ link between high glycemic index diets and CVD
Data from nearly 120,000 adults worldwide in the PURE study forms the clearest evidence so far that a diet with less processed carbs is associated...
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Thirteen percent of patients with type 2 diabetes have major ECG abnormalities
ECGs from more than 8,000 Dutch patients with type 2 diabetes, most without known cardiovascular disease, show that major abnormalities are not...
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Obesity pegged as diabetes cause in almost half of U.S. cases
Data from two major U.S. epidemiology studies, MESA and NHANES, provide new evidence that obesity is the attributable cause for about 40% of...
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Long-term metformin use linked to fewer ER+ breast cancers
Observational data from more than 40,000 women with type 2 diabetes show fewer estrogen receptor–positive breast cancers in those treated with...
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Oily fish linked to lower risk of diabetes in largest study to date
People who reported eating at least one oily fish meal weekly had about a 20% lower incidence of type 2 diabetes compared with never-eaters. Fish-...
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PURE: High refined-grain intake boosts death, CVD events
Data from more than 137,000 people in 21 countries document the adverse effects of eating refined grains regularly.
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Widespread liver disease missed in patients with T2D
New evidence showing how common fatty liver disease and fibrosis are in patients with type 2 diabetes triggers a broadened “call to action.”
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Cardiometabolic Center Alliance promotes multiorgan, integrated T2D treatment
Begun in 2020, the Cardiometabolic Center Alliance seeks to transform preventive care for patients with T2D with an aggressive, multidisciplinary...
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Sotagliflozin’s trial data receives FDA welcome for NDA filing
The SOLOIST and SCORED trials of the SGLT1/2 inhibitor sotagliflozin did not proceed as planned, but the FDA says it will accept the results in an...
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Far too few with treatment-resistant hypertension get hormone test
“Testing rates also did not change meaningfully over nearly 2 decades ... despite an increasing number of guidelines recommending testing for...
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Twincretin ‘impressive’: Topline data from phase 3 trial in diabetes
Tirzepatide, the first dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist in advanced testing, showed potent antihyperglycemic and weight loss effects in the...
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Obesity phenotyping matches patients with more effective interventions
A prospective, randomized study suggests obesity phenotyping can guide selection of more effective, tailored weight-loss drug regimens.
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Finerenone’s heart benefits hold up in T2D patients without CVD
In the FIDELIO-DKD trial, cardiovascular benefits from a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid antagonist held, regardless of CVD history, in T2D...