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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Diabetes in adults doubles worldwide<br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/diabetes-lancet-1.7383245" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/health/diabetes-la</span><span class="invisible">ncet-1.7383245</span></a></p><p>* global diabetes epidemic<br>* study could not separate Type 1/Type 2 diabetes<br>* prev. evidence suggests most adult T2D linked to obesity, poor diet</p><p>Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022<br><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02317-1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thelancet.com/journals/lancet/</span><span class="invisible">article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02317-1</span></a></p><p>COMMENT: no mention of fructose (HFCS; glucose-fructose), ubiquitously/egregiously added to processed foods by corporations; excess fructose metabolically toxic</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/T1D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>T1D</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/T2D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>T2D</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diabetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diabetes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metastudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metastudy</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Fructose: Adverse health effects<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose#Potential_health_effects" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose</span><span class="invisible">#Potential_health_effects</span></a></p><p>* evidence that fructose/other added free sugars assoc. w. incr. risk of sev. chronic diseases<br>* risk for obesity/dyslipidemia; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; type 2 diabetes; hypertension</p><p>Comments:<br>* caution: like tobacco industry, sugar/fat industries enormously profit f. HFCS<br>* beware biased, industry-sponsored research<br>* note funders, associations</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sweeteners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sweeteners</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HFCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HFCS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlucoseFructose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlucoseFructose</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fructose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fructose</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/T1D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>T1D</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/T2D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>T2D</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diabetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diabetes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metastudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metastudy</span></a></p>
Research in English<p>mHealth Addiction Studies Struggle to Find and Keep Participants <a href="https://researchinenglish.com/article/2024.0/mhealth-interventions-face-recruitment-and-retention-rpivfyql" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">researchinenglish.com/article/</span><span class="invisible">2024.0/mhealth-interventions-face-recruitment-and-retention-rpivfyql</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>addiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mobileHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mobileHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mhealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/studies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>studies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metastudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metastudy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
デイヴ<p>The original <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metastudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metastudy</span></a> (coauthored by Stanford people, lest you think statistics quackery is the exclusive realm of second tier universities), after excluding self-reported data, and when looking at the time/length correlation for the European population, gets a p-value of… &lt;drumroll&gt; 0.04…</p><p>Which (especially when you take into account the wild number of tests performed) is… 😂🤣😂🤡</p><p><a href="https://wjmh.org/DOIx.php?id=10.5534/wjmh.220203" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wjmh.org/DOIx.php?id=10.5534/w</span><span class="invisible">jmh.220203</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pvalue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pvalue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/urology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>urology</span></a></p>