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Oct 17, 2024 | diabetesjournals.org | Maria Chiara |Reggio Emilia |Di Bartolo |De Cosmo

Early, intensive glycemic control in T2D patients is associated with long-term benefits on cardiovascular disease (CVD) development. Evidence on benefits of achieving HbA1c targets close to normal values is scant. Subjects with newly-diagnosed T2D, without CVD at baseline, were identified in an Italian clinical registry (N=251,339). We adopted three definitions of early exposure periods (0–1, 0–2 and 0–3 years). Mean HbA1c was categorized into HbA1c 8.0%.

Jun 6, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Di Bartolo

The representation of women in leadership positions within the STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine) sector remains disappointingly low, even in disciplines where women outnumber men in graduate school. Although discussions about the causes of this so-called STEMM leaky pipeline have long focused on gender biases and stereotypes, in recent years, the motherhood penalty has increasingly being recognized as a major contributing factor.