Race Ranks Higher than Pounds for South Asians, Hispanics – ScienceDaily

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Americans of South Asian descent are twice as likely as whites to have risks for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, when their weight is in the normal range, according to a study headed by Emory University and UC San Francisco.

Similarly, Americans of Hispanic descent were 80 percent more likely than whites to suffer from so-called cardio-metabolic abnormalities that give rise to heart disease, stroke and diabetes, compared with 50 percent more likely for those who were Chinese and African-American.

These risks include high blood pressure (hypertension), elevated glucose, low HDL, the “good cholesterol,” and high triglycerides, a fat found in blood. In the study, participants who were aged between 45 and 84, were classified as having cardio-metabolic abnormalities if they had two or more of these four risk factors.

Source: Race ranks higher than pounds in diabetes, heart-health risks: South Asians, Hispanics of normal weight most likely to have high glucose, hypertension — ScienceDaily

Richard Bolles Dies at 90; Wrote ‘What Color Is Your Parachute?’ – The New York Times

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I have three copies of this book: 1978, 1988, and 2005 editions.

Patients with OCD are 10 times more likely to commit suicide — ScienceDaily

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Patients with OCD are 10 times more likely to commit suicide, contrary to what was previously thought.A new study shows that the main predictor of suicide in OCD patients is a previous suicide attempt, which offers opportunities for prevention.

Source: Patients with OCD are 10 times more likely to commit suicide — ScienceDaily

Dots

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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

Drugs for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Pain — Physician’s First Watch

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Source: Which Drugs Work for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Pain? — Physician’s First Watch

Pension Problem Too Big To Ignore? – MishTalk

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Source: Pension Problem Too Big To Ignore? | MishTalk

Source: Your pension could be at the center of America’s next financial crisis | TheHill

The situation is not getting better. The future looks more and more like cat food and crackers for a lot of retirees.

Pediatrics

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Italy at the Grim Edge of a Global Problem | Wolf Street

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Eurostat statistics in October 2016 showed that less than a third of under-35s in Italy had left their parental home, a figure 20 percentage points higher than the European average.

Source: Italy at the Grim Edge of a Global Problem | Wolf Street

The grown up child living in her childhood bedroom or the basement is actually a global problem. I don’t pretend to have the answers. All I know is my millennials are gone. Neither of the two are financially dependent upon the Bank of Mom & Dad. Hopefully we did some things right. Maybe we got a little lucky.

Probably both.