medicalcondition:diabetes

The Health Toll of Immigration - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/health/the-health-toll-of-immigration.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130519

Même une fois passé la frontière, une fois acquis les papier pour travailler légalement, les migrants risquent encore leur vie s’ils adoptent « fully » la « American ay of life... »

BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — Becoming an American can be bad for your health.

A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their American-born children may have more money, they tend to live shorter lives than the parents.

#migrations #états-unis #alimentation

Diabetes in Mexico: Eating themselves to death | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/04/diabetes-mexico?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/eatingthemselvestodeath

Eating themselves to death Apr 10th 2013

MEXICO has long been a country that derives extraordinary pleasure from eating and drinking—and it hasn’t minded the consequences much either. Gordo or gorda, meaning “chubby”, is used by both wives and husbands as a term of endearment. Pudgy kids bear proudly the nickname gordito, as they tuck into snacks after school slathered with beans, cheese, cream and salsa.

#alimentation #santé #mexique

It’s the Sugar, Folks - NYTimes.com
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/its-the-sugar-folks

The key point in the article is this: “Each 150 kilocalories/person/day increase in total calorie availability related to a 0.1 percent rise in diabetes prevalence (not significant), whereas a 150 kilocalories/person/day rise in sugar availability (one 12-ounce can of soft drink) was associated with a 1.1 percent rise in diabetes prevalence.” Thus: for every 12 ounces of sugar-sweetened beverage introduced per person per day into a country’s food system, the rate of diabetes goes up 1 percent. (The study found no significant difference in results between those countries that rely more heavily on high-fructose corn syrup and those that rely primarily on cane sugar.)

This is as good (or bad) as it gets, the closest thing to causation and a smoking gun that we will see.

(…)

But as Lustig says, “This study is proof enough that sugar is toxic. Now it’s time to do something about it.”

The next steps are obvious, logical, clear and up to the Food and Drug Administration. To fulfill its mission, the agency must respond to this information by re-evaluating the toxicity of sugar, arriving at a daily value — how much added sugar is safe? — and ideally removing fructose (the “sweet” molecule in sugar that causes the damage) from the “generally recognized as safe” list, because that’s what gives the industry license to contaminate our food supply.

L’étude sur PLOS One http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0057873

Et le graphique : http://i.imgur.com/wdwJmSS.png
Figure 2. Adjusted association of sugar availability (kcal/person/day) with diabetes prevalence (% adults 20–79 years old).
Regression line is adjusted for all control variables listed in Table 1, including time-trends (period-effects).

Big Data, Better Global Health - Council on Foreign Relations

cc @fil @simplicissimus

http://www.cfr.org/global-health/big-data-better-global-health/p30042?cid=nlc-public-the_world_this_week-link14-20130222

Big Data, Better Global Health

Author: Thomas Bollyky, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development
February 21, 2013

Bill Gates, Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), and other experts and leaders gathered this month in Geneva for a very important meeting on a very unimportant-sounding subject: global disease estimates.

The impetus was the release of the Global Burden Disease (GBD) Study, the most comprehensive and ambitious effort to date to quantify the world’s health status. Led by Chris Murray and his colleagues at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the GBD study involved 486 collaborators from 302 institutions in 50 countries. In a field in which donors and policymakers have lacked basic health data, such as birth and death registries, for many countries, the GBD study assesses 291 diseases and injuries and 67 risk factors in 187 countries over a 20-year period (1990-2010).

#santé #big-data #statistiques

Les ordinateurs sont meilleurs pour diagnostiquer et traiter les patients que les docteurs - io9
http://io9.com/5983991/computers-are-better-at-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-than-doctors

Des chercheurs de l’Université d’Indiana ont collecté des données de santé auprès de 500 patients, comme la pression artérielle, le diabète, etc. et ont fourni toutes ces infos à un système d’intelligence artificielle qui a établi des diagnostics et un traitement pour chacun des cas en parallèle des médecins ont fait exactement la même chose.

Le résultat est sans appel : les diagnostics et les traitements prescrits par la machine sont 42% plus justes que ceux prescrits par les médecins. Tags : (...)

#intelligenceartificielle #bigdata #santé #médecine

2012 - Americas Health Rankings report - State Health Statistics brought to you by AmericasHealthRankings.org.
http://www.americashealthrankings.org

Panorama de la santé aux États-Unis, état par état. Une enquête menée par téléphone (je n’ai pas trouvé la taille de l’échantillon…) avec un historique depuis 1990.

Exemple, l’obésité ;
http://i.imgur.com/Atusl.jpg
En utilisant le curseur, en haut, on peut faire défiler depuis 1990.

Remarque intéressante : c’est la première enquête où ils incluent les ménages sans ligne fixe. Avec quelques notes sur l’impact en terme sociodémographiques (voir prochain seen…)

Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies (MotherJones.com)
►http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/sugar-industry-lies-campaign

how Big Sugar used Big Tobacco-style tactics to ensure that government agencies would dismiss troubling health claims against their products. Compared to the tobacco companies, which knew for a fact that their wares were deadly and spent billions of dollars trying to cover up that reality, the sugar industry had a relatively easy task. With the jury still out on sugar’s health effects, producers simply needed to make sure that the uncertainty lingered. But the goal was the same: to safeguard sales by creating a body of evidence companies could deploy to counter any unfavorable research. (...) Source: MotherJones.com

Mother Jones: How the industry minimized (and minimizes) the health effects of sugars
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2012/11/mother-jones-how-the-industry-minimized-and-minimizes-the-health-effec

a detailed account of how the sugar industry manipulated scientists and government officials into overlooking the health problems caused by overconsumption of sugars and instead focusing on overconsumption of dietary fat (both removed from their caloric context, alas).

Their winning campaign, crafted with the help of the prestigious public relations firm Carl Byoir & Associates (...)

With an initial annual budget of nearly $800,000 ($3.4 million today) collected from the makers of Dixie Crystals, Domino, C&H, Great Western, and other sugar brands, the association recruited a stable of medical and nutritional professionals to allay the public’s fears, brought snack and beverage companies into the fold, and bankrolled scientific papers that contributed to a “highly supportive” FDA ruling, which, the Silver Anvil application boasted, made it “unlikely that sugar will be subject to legislative restriction in coming years.”

Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies | Mother Jones
►http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/sugar-industry-lies-campaign

#lobby #nutrition #sucre

Call to ban TV in kids’ bedrooms
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/call-to-ban-tv-in-kids-bedrooms-20121027-28c85.html

ALLOWING children to have a television in their bedroom almost triples the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes, a conference on sedentary behaviour in Sydney will hear this week.

New US research that studied 380 children aged from five to 18 found two-thirds had a TV in their bedroom

#télévision #santé #enfants #prévention

Toxicology : The learning curve : Nature News & Comment
http://www.nature.com/news/toxicology-the-learning-curve-1.11644

depuis Paracelse on approche la toxicité des produits avec un effet-dose : la dangerosité d’un composé augmente quand on en accroît la présence ; mais avec les perturbateurs endocriniens il va peut-être falloir changer d’approche, leur simple existence pouvant s’avérer dangereuse. Le débat est à la fois scientifique et politique.

#recherche #chimie #pollution #régulation

To Encourage Biking, Cities Forget About Helmets - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/sunday-review/to-encourage-biking-cities-forget-about-helmets.html?_r=2&smid=tw-share&pag

if you force or pressure people to wear helmets, you discourage them from riding bicycles. That means more obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

‘Junk DNA’ concept debunked by new analysis of human genome - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/junk-dna-concept-debunked-by-new-analysis-of-human-genome/2012/09/05/cf296720-f772-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_story.html

Most of a person’s genetic risk for common diseases such as diabetes, asthma and hardening of the arteries appears to lie in the shadowy part of the human genome once disparaged as “junk DNA.”

Indeed, the vast majority of human DNA seems to be involved in maintaining individuals’ well being — a view radically at odds with what biologists have thought for the past three decades.

comme quoi il faut rester modeste quand on fait de la #recherche
#science #biologie #génétique

Obesity linked to poor academic performance - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9515864/Obesity-linked-to-poor-academic-performance.html

Complications associated with being overweight are linked to lower school performance, it found..

The study found that children showing physical changes due to being obese, such as raised blood pressure, higher levels of bad cholesterol and resistance to the blood sugar controlling hormone, insulin, had poorer scores on thinking tests.[...]

The researchers from New York University compared 49 children with metabolic syndrome, a collection of at least three health problems associated with obesity which can include a large waist, low good choelsterol, high blood fats, high blood pressure and insulin resistance which is a pre-cursor to type 2 diabetes.

Health Problems in Teens Linked with Worse Cognitive Skills
http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/3031-teens-metabolic-syndrome-school-tests.html

While obesity has been a primary target for wellness programs, Convit said weight itself should not be the target, but the symptoms of metabolic syndrome, which can be assessed by a pediatrician and often improved by exercise. Extra weight alone isn’t a problem in an otherwise active child, he said.

#santé #obésité #syndrome_métabolique #apprentissage

Glaxo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion in Fraud Settlement
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/glaxosmithkline-agrees-to-pay-3-billion-in-fraud-settlement.html?_r=1&ref=g

The British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $3 billion in fines for illegally promoting the antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin and for failing to report safety data about the diabetes drug Avandia, federal prosecutors announced Monday.

#pharma

Alzheimer’s gene ’diabetes link’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18445701

Scientists say they have identified a possible genetic link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.

It has been known for some time that people with diabetes have a much higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s, but not why this is so.

Now US researchers writing in Genetics say a study of worms has indicated a known Alzheimer’s gene also plays a role in the way insulin is processed.

Dementia experts said more work in humans was now needed.

Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia, which affects 820,000 people in the UK.

#Alzheimer #santé #diabète

Study Suggests Coffee Is Healthy, Coffee Drinkers Are Not | Singularity Hub
http://singularityhub.com/2012/05/23/study-suggests-coffee-is-healthy-coffee-drinkers-are-not

As compared with persons who did not drink coffee, coffee drinkers were more likely to smoke cigarettes and consume more than three alcoholic drinks per day, and they consumed more red meat. Coffee drinkers also tended to have a lower level of education; were less likely to engage in vigorous physical activity; and reported lower levels of consumption of fruits, vegetables, and white meat.

http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/coffee-chart1.jpg
#santé #café #alimentation

Household chemicals possibly causing cancers, fertility problems
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=144348

The significant growth in many human diseases and disorders in recent decades, including breast and prostate cancer, male infertility and diabetes is connected to the rising levels of exposure to mixtures of some chemicals in widespread use, according to a review of recent literature commissioned by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

Chemicals which disrupt the hormone system – also known as ‘endocrine disrupting chemicals’ (EDCs) – can be found in food, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, household products and cosmetics.

#chimie #cancer #santé

Pfizer’s Rezulin Suit: Prosecuted by Thomas Girardi, Defended by Pierce O’Donnell — While Concurrently Both Girardi and O’Donnell Were Representing Plaintiffs in Class-Action Against Sempra

After just two days of deliberations, a Los Angeles jury unanimously rejected claims Thursday that the diabetes drug Rezulin — taken off the market in March 2000 because of safety concerns — contributed to the deaths or illness of three people.

In the Los Angeles case, the jury found that the plaintiffs’ attorney, Thomas Girardi, proved that Rezulin can cause liver injury, but failed to “prove that Rezulin was a substantial factor in” the deaths of Lupe Contreras and Manuel Cervantes, or the illness of Leonard Clinkenbeard.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carl J. West presided over the seven-week trial. Attorney Pierce O’Donnell, who defended the drug company, could not be reached for comment.

Please see @:

http://lesliebrodie.posterous.com/2004-pfizers-rezulin-suit-prosecuted-by-thoma

Let there be ... less light pollution
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/136843363.html?page=all

un bel article sur la #pollution lumineuse

Research on “light at night” (LAN) tags it as a cause of sleep disorders linked to disruption of circadian rhythms. In that role, LAN contributes to hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cardiac problems and attention-deficit disorder.

#énergie #santé #sécurité

Drug research routinely suppressed, study authors find - JSOnline
http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/drug-research-routinely-suppressed-study-authors-find-qd3kfnn-136625848.ht

Drug research, even from clinical trials sponsored by the federal government, routinely is suppressed, harming patients and increasing health care costs, according to new data highlighting an ethical controversy that continues to plague the field of medicine.
“The current situation is a disservice to research participants, patients, health systems and the whole endeavor of clinical medicine,” according to an editorial accompanying the papers published in the British Medical Journal.
(...)
“Concealment of data should be regarded as the serious ethical breach that it is, and clinical researchers who fail to disclose data should be subject to disciplinary action by professional organizations,” wrote Richard Lehman of the University of Oxford, and Elizabeth Loder, a BMJ editor.

At the same time, medical journals may not want to publish negative findings, he said.

#recherche #censure et l’importance de publier même les résultats négatifs en #santé

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/01/04/missing-medical-data-could-harm-patients

http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.d8158?tab=related

Risk of having a hyperactive child rockets with poverty and diabetes - Health - Scotsman.com
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/risk_of_having_a_hyperactive_child_rockets_with_poverty_and_diabetes_1_203

A DOUBLE dose of disadvantage at the start of life can dramatically multiply a child’s chances of being afflicted by the developmental disorder ADHD, a study has found.

#santé #inégalités

#TSL : Bellemare suffering from advanced form of diabetes: report
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Nov-03/153018-bellemare-suffering-from-advanced-form-of-diabetes-report.ashx

The prosecutor of a U.N.-backed court probing the 2005 assassination of statesman Rafik Hariri is suffering from an advanced type of diabetes, a report published Thursday said.

The New York-based report by pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat said that Daniel Bellemare, Special Tribunal for Lebanon prosecutor, has been “out of sight” after falling ill with a form of advanced diabetes.

It quoted well-informed sources as saying that Bellemare’s “severe health condition has led him to isolate himself from people and stay in a closed room in Canada.”

Women who left poor area had fewer health ills later | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/20/2011
http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/20111020_Women_who_left_poor_area_had_fewer_health_ills_later.html

on s’en doutait un peu mais voici des preuves scientifiques

Back in the 1990s, the federal government tried an unusual social experiment: It offered thousands of poor women in big-city public housing a chance to live in more affluent neighborhoods.

A decade later, the women who relocated had lower rates of diabetes and extreme obesity - differences that are being hailed as compelling evidence that where you live can determine your health.

#inégalités #santé

Prognosis poor for U.N. chronic disease meeting | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/09/us-disease-un-idUSTRE7882CE20110909

Tobacco, food and drinks companies are in the firing line for peddling products linked to #cancer, diabetes and heart disease, while politicians in the rich world are accused of failing to set firm targets or provide funds for a decent fight.

“This is a once in a generation opportunity. We could save millions of lives here, and it’s shameful and immoral that industry lobbying has put short-term profits in front of a public health disaster,” Rebecca Perl of the World Lung Foundation (WLF) told Reuters.

#santé #tabac

Pregnancy diet weight: A mother’s diet and weight during pregnancy affect baby’s genes - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/os-diet-weight-pregnancy-20110827,0,4190994.story

Sorry, moms. That means once again, the pressure is on you.

“If your mom was obese while she was pregnant with you, you’re marked,” said Philip Wood, professor at Sanford Burnham Research Institute in Lake Nona. You will have an uphill battle fighting off excess weight and its ill effects, including diabetes and heart disease, even if you’re adopted and raised by slim parents, he said.

(...)

Studies have shown that these effects can be handed down to the next generation, she added.

#femmes #génétiques #naissance #santé