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It is well known that unhealthy lifestyles, certain chronic conditions may make the heart age faster. Using a cardiac MRI does not move the needle on what we need to offer patients to prevent disease progression.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 30, 2025 Source:Unhealthy lifestyles, certain chronic conditions may make the heart age faster Reference:Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging markers of ageing: a multi-centre, cross-sectional cohort study
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Diabetes in pregnancy may increase child’s autism, ADHD risk
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 5, 2025 Source:Diabetes in pregnancy may increase child’s autism, ADHD risk Reference:Association between maternal diabetes and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 202 observational studies comprising 56·1 million pregnancies
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Reverse causality, caloric intake, or a true link? Some confounding variables in an observational study that states that clusters of additives in ultraprocessed foods are linked to type 2 diabetes.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 14, 2025 Source:Clusters of additives in ultraprocessed foods linked to type 2 diabetes, study finds Reference:
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Another observational food-questionnaire study rife with recall bias links dark chocolate consumption with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 5, 2024 Source:Dark chocolate linked to lower risk of type 2 diabetes, study saysReference:Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
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Not doing everything we can to help mitigate the increasing prevalence of diabetes bodes ill for world health and health care systems
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 15, 2024 Source:Diabetes in adults nearly doubles worldwide, study suggests Reference:Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants
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Vision and hearing loss among growing list of risk factors for dementia, study says
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 7, 2024 Source:Time to get your eyes checked: Vision loss among growing list of risk factors for dementia, study says Reference:Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission
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Popular weight loss and diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of rare form of blindness. Study authors state that causality is not established. The health benefits of controlling diabetes, reduced heart, liver, kidney, and brain disease need to be considered with its use.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 4, 2024 Source:Popular weight loss and diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of rare form of blindness
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World’s first weekly insulin injection coming to Canada in 2 weeks, manufacturer says. Indicated for type 2 diabetes management. Expensive and utility remains uncertain.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 18, 2024 Source:World’s first weekly insulin injection coming to Canada in 2 weeks, manufacturer says
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Glucose monitors may misclassify people as being at risk of diabetes. They are not screening tools and are fraught with misinterpretation and false positives in otherwise healthy people.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 24, 2024 Source:Glucose monitors may misclassify people as being at risk of diabetes