MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Diabetes: 1 in 5 US adolescents is now prediabetic, study says
By artappraiser on Mon, 12/02/2019 - 7:07pm |By Michael Nedelman @ CNN via MSN.com, 7 hrs. ago
Nearly a quarter of young adults and a fifth of adolescents in the United States have prediabetes, according to a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Prediabetes -- a condition wherein blood sugar levels are elevated, but not high enough to warrant a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes -- was estimated at 18% among adolescents ages 12 to 18, and 24% among young adults ages 19 to 34.
Experts say these numbers have risen over the past decade, putting young people at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other conditions down the line."Until recently, young children and teens almost never got type 2 diabetes, which is why it used to be called adult-onset diabetes," says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where most of the new study's authors are affiliated. "Now, about one-third of American youth are overweight, a problem closely related to the increase in kids with type 2 diabetes, some as young as 10 years old."
Analyzing nearly 5,800 individuals included in a national health survey from 2005 to 2016, the study authors found that "the prevalence of prediabetes in male individuals was almost twice that in female individuals" [....]
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Crap science? Fewer than 2% progress to full diabetes each year, and methods to "treat" "pre-diabetes" seem ineffective.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/war-prediabetes-could-be-boon-ph...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 4:41pm
Thank you, I was suspicious. Definitely thought it newsworthy, however, in that it will effect many for good or ill. Whatever the heck they are actually measuring here--the true meaning I have no doubt be revealed a decade or more down the road--it is interesting that they found it much more prominently in males than females.
Take it from experience patient arta who has heard the truth from top docs: the practice of endocrinology is in its infancy, that is: THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND SHIT ABOUT HUMAN HORMONES, how they work and what they do.
Okay boomer bonus anecdotals: I remember when there was only one kind of cholesterol and it caused heart disease.
I also remember in the mid 60's when my father was diagnosed as pre-diabetic and was told not to eat any sugar at which we commenced at finding him sweet treats without added sugar for several years. Then all of a sudden that was nonsense and he could eat sugar again. He ate a lot of sweets and stayed trim his whole life to his early 90's and never developed diabetes. My overweight mother (weight gained and never lost, I am convinced, with every childbirth.--I amm the oldest and saw her bear the others and saw everything she ate which was not that much--so: HORMONES--she was was tortured to death in her mid-70's by 13 years of complications of type 2 diabetes.
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 5:53pm
P.S. And lordy, after a couple years struggle trying to find a doctor knowledgeable enough to fine tune my hormone replacement therapy, and giving up to DIY fiddling with an obliging OB/GYN, I just gotta say: all those trans people getting endocrinological "help" these days to have their body match their mind? BEWARE folks, they don't know what they're doing, you are all guinea pigs. To quote head of Endocrinology at Mt. Sinai to me: well, we don't really know what normal levels of many of those sex-related hormones should be
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 5:58pm
And another thing: seems like 90% of endocrinologists these days specialize in "diabetes" and don't bother with any of those other supposedly unrelated hormones. This enquiring mind wonders: which is the chicken and which is the egg? Did the massive growth in diabetes diagnoses come first, or the huge number of endocrinologists who are prone to diagnose it come first?
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 6:02pm
Gotta keep docs working. Low hanging fruits...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 6:24pm
So there is a plot operating out in the open to falsely diagnose patients with diabetes in the United States?
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/881849
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 10:04pm
Sorry, not buying, I think that's spin of two years ago
I googled, here's the ads that come up first for me, tailored to my locality cookies, of course
Cry me a river.
And here's the AMA in late 2018 on where the real dearth of practitioners and the main problem is:
Actually, dentists with an advanced specialty degrees are actually the ones raking in the big dough right now, not M.D.s except for like plastic and orthopedic surgeons. M.D.'s in general have had a big awakening since Obamacare, about lifetime income expectations, leaving private practice in droves--seeing little profit with tons of paperwork, and joining corps. and conglomerates where they are salaried. If you want big money, you go periodontist where there's no rules and no bargaining with United Health or Humana...
Ever hear of capitation? Not making enough money, doc? See more patients in the same amount of time. Throw the simplest diagnosis code at em and follow the protocol and get paid, just that simple. Especially poor folk with the Medicaid insurance, got to crank out more to make the same. No time to figure out what their real problem is, and nice thing about it, you scare them into eating healthier and lowering their b.p., no one is going to sue you for that.
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 11:24pm
P.S. plus the P.A. is the one who deals with all the compliance crap so you don't have to!
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 11:26pm
From Medscape. Endocrinologists are near the bottom
https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-compensation-endocrinologist-6011328#2
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 5:10pm
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 5:12pm
Note the Medscape graph shows endocrinologists below internists
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 5:13pm