Of >105,000 participants with 30-year follow-up, only 9.3% achieved healthy aging (age 70, w/o any chronic diseases). Their diet was significantly associated with this outcome🧵 @NatureMedicine
Even in the age of powerful obesity management medications, lifestyle modifications are still key 🔑.
📉Every 1kg weight loss reduces risk of type 2 diabetes progression by 16% with lifestyle interventions, according to the Diabetes Prevention Program.
🏃♀️Even those who did not meet weight-loss goals, those who met physical activity goals had a 44% lower diabetes risk.
https://t.co/A4Lr31rbAJ
Lions assistant head coach and running backs coach Scottie Montgomery said that Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery now want to be called “Sonic and Knuckles.”
“It’s official now,” Montgomery told reporters. “I’ve been warned that this is what want to be called.”
The ACA set the floor that many preventive services, like mammograms, are free. And yet new research finds insurers are incorrectly billing or denying these services, especially for lower-income patients.
Infuriating–we must fix.
BREAKING—the FDA has just authorized the new Novavax vaccine, tailored to JN1 related variants. Anyone age 12 and over are eligible. You may receive it 2 months after a prior version of COVID-19 shot (and prior infection, though FDA memo didn’t specify).
https://t.co/2TpDmus9x3
Hello #MedTwitter, my name is Momodou (Gobi) and I am an MD/MPH student applying to #neurosurgery for #match2025. 🙏🏾
I am passionate about Global neurosurg and promoting DEI in neurosurg.
Outside medicine, I enjoy playing and watching soccer.
Lets connect!
#match2025 🇬🇲
Much of dementia—perhaps half—could be prevented or substantially delayed with attention to 14 modifiable risk factors
@TheLancet Commission 2024 report https://t.co/wsphtAfk77
New inclusion of cholesterol and vision loss as risk factors
Feeling incredibly excited and grateful to be starting residency with such an amazing group of people in a truly special city @HenryFordHealth! Looking forward to becoming a part of the Detroit community, growing as a person & physician, and for what the future holds!