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Nanocarriers and Diabetes: New Vistas and the way ahead
Curr Pharm Biotechnol. 2022 Dec 27. doi: 10.2174/1389201024666221227140728. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWorld Health Organization has reported an estimated 1.5 million deaths directly due to diabetes in 2019. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in its National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2020, says that 1 in 10 United States residents has diabetes. This rapid progression of diabetes is noteworthy despite significant advances in the field of antidiabetic medicine. The critical challenges in treatment are dyslipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, and hyperglycemia. The latest research has also linked diabetes to carcinogenesi...
Source: Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology - December 29, 2022 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Pankaj V Dixit Dinesh K Mishra Sanjay Sharma Rupesh K Gautam Source Type: research
The final puff: Can New Zealand quit smoking for good?
Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers come into the emergency ward every night, struggling to breathe with their damaged lungs. Later, as an infectious disease specialist, she saw how smoking exacerbated illness in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She would tell them: “The best thing you can do to promote your health, other than take the pills, is to quit smoking.”
Verrall is still urging citizens to give up cigarettes—no longer just one by one, but by the thousands. As New...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Comment on: Insurance-mandated weight management program completion before bariatric surgery provides no long-term clinical benefit
By 2030, 1 in 2 American adults is projected to have obesity and 1 in 4 clinically severe obesity. Obesity represents a serious public health issue because it is a major risk factor for many major, noncommunicable diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer, and independently predicts overall mortality. The burden of obesity on medical spending is also significant, with $1861 in excess annual medical costs per adult with obesity and $3097 per adult with severe obesity —accounting for $173 billion annually in the United States [1].
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Hamlet Gasoyan, David B. Sarwer, Michael B. Rothberg Tags: Editorial comment Source Type: research
Precertification criteria for bariatric surgery should be based on evidence
By 2030, one in two American adults is projected to have obesity and one in four clinically severe obesity. Obesity represents a serious public health issue because it is a major risk factor for many major, non-communicable diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer, and independently predicts overall mortality. The burden of obesity on medical spending is also significant, with $1,861 excess annual medical costs per adult with obesity and $3,097 per adult with severe obesity – accounting for $173 billion annually in the United States.
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - November 15, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Hamlet Gasoyan, David B. Sarwer, Michael B. Rothberg Source Type: research
Trends in age and sex-specific prevalence of cancer and cancer subtypes in acute ischemic stroke from 2007-2019
To describe age and sex-specific prevalence of cancer in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) hospitalizations in the United States over the last decade.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - October 29, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Fadar Oliver Otite, Sana Somani, Ehimen Aneni, Emmanuel Akano, Smit D. Patel, Nnabuchi Anikpezie, Olaoluwatomi Lamikanra, Hesham Masoud, Julius Gene Latorre, Seemant Chaturvedi, Prachi Mehndiratta Source Type: research
Prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases Among Breast Cancer Survivors: Findings From the NHANES 2003-2018
CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that BC survivors are at risk of suffering from CVD and public health strategies for the long-term management of CVD risk factors in this vulnerable population group is recommended.PMID:35975972 | DOI:10.1177/08901171221120910
Source: American Journal of Health Promotion : AJHP - August 17, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Youngdeok Kim R Lee Franco Alexander R Lucas Arnethea L Sutton Jessica G LaRose Jonathan Kenyon Jeremy Via Richard K Cheng Ralph B D'Agostino Vanessa B Sheppard W Gregory Hundley Source Type: research
The Prevalence of Multimorbidity among Foreign-born Adults in the United States
CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of multimorbidity among immigrants was lower than the prevalence in the overall US population of the same age, consistent with studies showing an immigrant health advantage.PMID:35909642 | PMC:PMC9311306 | DOI:10.18865/ed.32.3.213
Source: Ethnicity and Disease - August 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rebecca E Jones Lubaba Tasnim Solveig A Cunningham Source Type: research
