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Risk of heart attacks halves in patients with diabetes in 15 years:
Management of patients with type 2 diabetes has changed considerably over the last two decades, with increased focus on prevention of cardiovascular disease. This was the first study to examine how these changes may have affected the risk of heart attacks and premature death in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and no previous cardiovascular disease.
The researchers identified all patients in Denmark initiating therapy for type 2 diabetes from 1996 to 2011 - a total of 211,278 patients. Each patient with diabetes was matched on age and sex with five people without diabetes from the general population. Those with previous cardiovascular disease were excluded.
All participants were followed for seven years. Using data from national health registries, the researchers recorded heart attacks and death during follow-up. They also noted the use of medications to prevent cardiovascular disease at the time of diabetes diagnosis.
The researchers found that patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and no previous cardiovascular disease experienced major reductions in the risk of heart attack and death. From 1996 to 2011, the relative risk was reduced by 61% for heart attack and by 41% for death. During the same period, the absolute risks of heart attack and death reduced by 4% and 12%, respectively.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Monday August 31 2020, @05:08PM (1 child)
My non scientific meta-analysis of the evidence says of type II diabetes:
All figures approximate, and known to be subject to genetic factors. Definition of "obese" based on BMI is known to be rubbish.
Disclaimer - I have not had any of the above treatments, and still have my type II diabetes.
Yes, I would like an antibiotic that kills the rogue bacteria please.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 2) by pdfernhout on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:32AM
https://www.amazon.com/End-Diabetes-Live-Prevent-Reverse/dp/0062219987 [amazon.com]
There are other similar plans. Good luck!
Here is the deeper issue: https://www.healthpromoting.com/the-pleasure-trap [healthpromoting.com]
"Dr. Douglas Lisle, who has spent the last two decades researching and studying this evolutionary syndrome, explains that all of us inherit innate incentives from our ancient ancestors that he terms The Motivational Triad: the pursuit of pleasure, the avoidance of pain, and the conservation of energy. Unfortunately, in present day America's convenience-centric, excess-oriented culture, where fast food, recreational drugs, and sedentary shopping have become the norm, these basic instincts that once successfully insured the survival and reproduction of man many millennia ago, no longer serve us well. In fact, it's our unknowing enslavement to this internal, biological force embedded in the collective memory of our species that is undermining our health and happiness today."
And even broader: https://tlc.ku.edu/ [ku.edu]
"We were never designed for the sedentary, indoor, sleep-deprived, socially-isolated, fast-food-laden, frenetic pace of modern life." (Stephen Ilardi, PhD)"
And also on that theme:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_Stimuli [wikipedia.org]
"Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose is a book by Deirdre Barrett published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2010. Barrett is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. The book argues that human instincts for food, sex, and territorial protection evolved for life on the savannah 10,000 years ago, not for today's densely populated technological world. Our instincts have not had time to adapt to the rapid changes of modern life. The book takes its title from Nikolaas Tinbergen's concept in animal ethology of the supernormal stimulus, the phenomena by which insects, birds, and fish in his experiments could be lured by a dummy object which exaggerated one or more characteristic of the natural stimulus object such as giant brilliant blue plaster eggs which birds preferred to sit on in preference to their own. Barrett extends the concept to humans and outlines how supernormal stimuli are a driving force behind today’s most pressing problems, including modern warfare, obesity and other fitness problems, while also explaining the appeal of television, video games, and pornography as social outlets."
And also: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html [paulgraham.com]
"Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly."
Anyway, I would guess some or most of the improvements in heart disease related to the last decade of information about improved nutrition as well as vitamin D, as above.
Also related:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/22/vitamin-d-deficiency-research-paper.aspx [mercola.com]
"Vitamin D optimization is likely the easiest, least expensive and most beneficial strategy that anyone can do to minimize their risk of COVID-19 and other infections in coming months"
Sad that one of the main people educating about vitamin D early on (including on how it helps prevent influenza) -- John Jacob Cannell, MD -- is now broke and homeless? This is a guy who has perhaps helped millions move to better health. We truly have a deeply broken health care system.
https://www.reddit.com/r/VitaminD/comments/g803iz/what_happened_to_the_vitamin_d_council_website/ [reddit.com]
The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.