Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 9, 2024

The 14 Factors Include: Hearing Loss High LDL cholesterol Less Education Traumatic Brain Injury Depression Social Isolation Hypertension Obesity Smoking Excess Alcohol Diabetes Physical Inactivity Air Pollution Visual Loss Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission When You Intervene Matters.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 29, 2023

It all comes down to: What your priorities are What your objectives are Your risk tolerance Your ability to update that risk model Where you draw the line of ‘risk’ equating to ‘causation’ The same is true when it comes to the question of statins ‘causing’ diabetes. What to do? Let’s dive in.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 15, 2023

BMC Endow Disorders 2009 The issue with using waist circumference to identify insulin resistance is that it likely only flags it as an issue when things have progressed very far. Just for clarity, type 2 diabetes is when insulin resistance progresses to the point that your body can no longer keep your blood glucose levels under control.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

JANUARY 12, 2023

Where hosting the football World Cup became an exercise in bribery from which no-one, and nothing, was immune. As far back as 2009, the long-time editor of the New England Journal of Medicine wrote these words. Any man, or woman, who refused to take a bribe from FIFA was the exception, not the rule. So, good luck with that.

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