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Triple threat of smoking, drinking and weight ‘puts a million in England at risk of early death’
(www.theguardian.com)
Thank God I don't live in England!
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Oh well on the bright side we'll save a lot of money on late life social care
Actually, the opposite, turns out keeping sick people barely alive is expensive
A health person tends to live a long time and just die. A sick person can linger for decades
I've read some studies that suggest people dying of lung cancer save the NHS money. They take up a lot of money in a lump sum but it tends to be incurable and kills them quite quickly. The alternative is people getting dementia or other degenerative cares and living for decades with round the clock care.
Sure, some of the metabolic problems are fast. But many are slow, like type 2 diabetes - The US spends 1 Billion a day on T2D diabetes and related conditions. With almost a billion people with T2D globally, and growing... it's going to get worse.
Yeah I agree it's hard to say anything definitively. Especially if you are an armchair physician like me who read abstracts for random papers online.
me too! Any interesting papers lately?
I wish I had some to hand but I tend to look them up ad hoc when I'm arguing with strangers for imaginary internet points
I find it's good to post the papers and the notes from the reading, for my own purposes if nothing else.
https://hackertalks.com/search?q=%5Bpaper%5D&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=7663&page=1&sort=New
Metabolic health is a worldwide epidemic, not just the UK