Many experts have blamed a poor job market, but new research indicates that an overlooked cause may be poor health.
Source: Unhealthy Men and Labor Force Participation – The Atlantic
Multiple study sources with links to the original research. A good article.
Source: Study Finds Sharp Rise in Colon Cancer and Rectal Cancer Rates Among Young Adults
This was the coolest colonoscopy report I’ve ever seen. I just had to share.
Source: Alcohol and the Heart: Moderation Still Best | Medpage Today
Source: Alcohol’s Link to Cardiovascular Disease Not So Simple — Physician’s First Watch
Lifestyle Changes in Plain English:
If you don’t drink alcohol, start drinking to reduce your risk of cardiac diseases.
If you drink alcohol heavily, decrease consumption to reduce your risk of cardiac diseases.
CONCLUSIONS An HbA1c >8.0% was associated with increased risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality in older adults with diabetes. Our results support the idea that better glycemic control is important for reducing mortality; however, in light of the conflicting evidence base, there is also a need for individualized glycemic targets for older adults with diabetes depending on their demographics, duration of diabetes, and existing comorbidities.
Source: Diabetes Care
Staying engaged in life
All of this squares with the experience of Claudia Landau, M.D., Ph.D., chief of geriatrics and palliative care at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif, and an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.
Early in her career she remembers working with a group of World War I veterans, all over the age of 90. Asked to account for their longevity and relatively good health, they cited a common reason: a desire to learn and stay engaged with life. One of them had just started to study Japanese.
“When people feel more engaged and involved, they have more motivation to do other things that will keep them well,” Landau says. Those can include physical exercise, paying attention to their diet, and simply getting out of the house more.
You may already have a sense of purpose in life, but if not, retirement, and the flexibility it provides, offers a wealth of possibilities. And it might pay to pick several of them. In Landau’s experience, “people who develop multiple ways of engaging with the world do the best,” she says.
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that left ventricular longitudinal relaxation velocity declines as a part of healthy aging and is largely prognostically benign. The use of age-based normative values when considering an elderly population improves the risk discrimination of diastolic measures for incident HF or death.
Prognostically benign!
Source: Systolic BP Predicts Later CVD in Blacks | Medpage Today
Despite what you may be thinking this is not a racist article.
Almost twice as sensitive as TRUS-biopsy for detecting aggressive prostate cancer
Source: MRI Can Rule Out Need for Biopsy in Men with High PSA | Medpage Today
Source: Does stage-3 chronic kidney disease matter?: A systematic literature review
For patients with stage-3 CKD, risk of mortality was higher than for those without CKD, but the risk of progression was low. CKD registers provide an opportunity for GPs to assess the risk of patients developing CVD.
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