Case, Anne and Angus Deaton. 2023. “Accounting for the widening mortality gap between American adults with and without a BA.” BPEA Conference Draft, Fall. — https://www.brookings.edu/articles/accounting-for-the-widening-mortality-gap-between-american-adults-with-and-without-a-ba/
CONCLUSIONS
Despite having fewer metabolic risk factors than type 2 diabetes, LADA has equal to higher risks of death, CVD, and retinopathy. Poorer glycemic control, particularly in LADAhigh, highlights the need for improved LADA management.
All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular and Microvascular Diseases in Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults — Diabetes Care 2023;46(10):1857–1865 — https://doi.org/10.2337/dc23-0739
Credit:
Credit for the last four slides:
Stay as thin as you can for as long as you can.
A 36-year-old female presents to the ED after experiencing an episode of sudden syncope. The patient has no significant past medical history, and reports that she was walking to the end of her driveway to retrieve her mail when she suddenly collapsed to the ground. She recalls waking up on her driveway with concerned neighbors gathered around her…
http://www.emdocs.net/em3am-brugada-syndrome/
Dear Readers – another Saturday morning and this Grandpa Underwriter is back to his old tricks of reading about things that are WAY ABOVE his pay grade. There are two clinical scenarios in the article. Enjoy!
Conclusions and Relevance Among older adults, more time spent in sedentary behaviors was significantly associated with higher incidence of all-cause dementia. Future research is needed to determine whether the association between sedentary behavior and risk of dementia is causal.
Sedentary Behavior and Incident Dementia Among Older Adults — https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2809418
I’m screwed.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
The older I get the more I think about retirement. But some things in this life should take a while to make decisions about and retirement is definitely one of those things. I made my decision on retirement 4 years ago when I decided not to retire. Recently, I made my second decision about retirement when I again decided not to retire. But it’s never too early to start thinking about various aspects of retirement as in what you want to retire to. I want to retire to a quiet life of blogging and writing my Future Best Seller tentatively titled The Man Who Had No Hobbies.
The time had come to upgrade my workstation.
Here’s the workstation for my Day Job.
And here’s my new personal workstation setup (yeah, looks the same).
My old Windows 7 machine was nearing the end. At the bottom left of the picture you can see it still sitting on the floor. I’ve upgraded to a Windows 11 laptop, docking station, and two extra monitors. I should be good until Windows 20 now.
For other random retirement thoughts go to https://garyskitchen.net/. At one point I may combine the two into a single blog.
Maybe when I’m retired.
No fake apologies will be forthcoming if you are offended by this comedian.
Source: https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2023/08/23/the-great-and-awful-thing-about-these-interest-rates/ Original sources are credited in the charts.
Yikes!
Evidence that Obesity and Diabetes are Driven by a Diet-Induced Biological Switch: How it Works and How it Might be Prevented — https://www.vumedi.com/video/evidence-that-obesity-and-diabetes-are-driven-by-a-diet-induced-biological-switch-how-it-works-and-h/
Blog post title is the same as the title of Dr. Richard J. Johnson’s book. The link takes you to a video that is approximately 37 minutes long. Enjoy!
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