I’m usually a lover of sunny days, but right now I say bring on the rain. The moisture is a welcome help to our heroic firefighters in Lake Tahoe and Washoe Valley. Because of the wet weather and the recent fires, some activities have been postponed: most notably the Advocates to End Domestic Violence’s Annual Light After Dark Run.
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England’s 18-40 year olds with type 2 diabetes now exceed those with type 1.1 It’s worth pausing and reading that again. In adults under 40, a condition that’s usually associated with lower age groups and has an autoimmune aetiology is now outflanked by one usually associated with “middle age” and caused mainly by a combination of lifestyle, environmental, and societal factors.
Perhaps this is an indictment of a society which, in trying to avoid accusations of nanny state-ism, has got caught up in the toxic debate around diets and has ended up widening deprivation gaps. In total, about 4% of people with type 2 diabetes are now under 40. It’s a small proportion, but it’s worrying for three reasons.
First, the proportion of people with type 2 diabetes is rising most quickly in under 40s about an 18% rise in cross sectional prevalence in the past five years, which compares with 11% in older age groups.2 …
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