“Diabetes. There is a presumption out there that old people won’t get diabetes if they are not fat. Wrong. You will find that age is more determinant than weight.”
From the CDC: “If you have diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use the insulin it makes as well as it should. When there isn’t enough insulin or cells stop responding to insulin, too much blood sugar stays in your bloodstream.”
Diabetes is not normally caused by our bodies producing too little insulin, but by our bodies no longer responding correctly to insulin. That is caused primarily by eating too much starch too frequently, causing spikes in blood sugar and thus insulin until, over time, our bodies become immune to it.
“The prevalence of diabetes mellitus increases with age; it occurs in approximately 10 percent of Americans 60 years of age and in 16 to 20 percent of those 80 years old....and it is estimated that an additional 20 percent of the elderly population has age-associated hyperglycemia, which may be part of a spectrum between normality and type II diabetes....Thus, 40 percent of our senior population has abnormal carbohydrate tolerance and is at risk for diabetic-type chronic complications.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3518443/
That is not a factor of age but of bad eating patterns. Eat bad enough long enough and it WILL affect you. But we can CHOOSE to eat well.....
Hyertension? What is it? Are you using the new American standards, the old ones, the European standards? The new standards are STUPID and violating the new standards will not cause increased risk with COVID. Systolic blood pressure of 140 isn’t dangerous unless it is caused by gunked up arteries. But the government makes no attempt to figure out WHY someone has blood pressure because their simplistic studies only track populations, not cause/effect.
“Hypertension just happens with age. It doesn’t need obesity to happen. Age is what does it.”
Small increases with age are normal even if healthy, but the statistics of risk always include those whose blood pressure when way up due to bad health habits - smoking, drinking, obesity, etc.
“Blood Pressure: How High is Too High and How Do I Lower it Safely?”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j314amPw4RQ
That’s good data on diabetes, but you are dancing around the text the correlated to age.
But mostly I thumbs up your issue of the new year 2017 hypertension standards. There is a bit of a fight between some official cardiology organization and an official family practice organization. The 140 systolic number is the battlefield for the fight. The cardiologists want thiazides forced onto people to get them below 120 systolic. The family practice people say this is flat out dangerous in the elderly because of dizziness and falls.
The study showed the vast majority of longevity benefit was lowering systolic from 180 or 170 or whatever down to 140. Below 140 there was still statistically significant benefit, but it was marginal. The family practice people yell about that. Risking falls to increase longevity a couple of days.