Type 1 diabetes diagnosed after age 30 for many U.S. adults
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/09/29/Type-1-diabetes-diagnosed/6011695928004/
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Type 1 diabetes has long been viewed as a childhood disease, but a new study suggests it might be time to revise that thinking.
Investigators concluded that nearly 4 in 10 Americans with Type 1 diabetes aren’t diagnosed with the blood sugar condition until they’re at least 30.
“Our research adds to a growing body of studies showing that adult-onset Type 1 diabetes may be as common as childhood-onset Type 1 diabetes,” said study author Michael Fang, an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
.....The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains that only about 5% to 10% of all diabetes patients have Type 1 diabetes, which is believed to be a result of the body essentially attacking itself, due to an immune system running amok.
That distinguishes it from the much more common Type 2 version of diabetes, which is more often attributed to lifestyle factors. Such factors include being overweight or obese, which can trigger insulin resistance, ultimately leading to dangerously high blood sugar levels.
.....Until recently, the consensus has been that while Type 1 diabetes can develop at any age it typically strikes children, teens and young adults.
However, that presumption may be incorrect, with the study team pointing to recent research that suggests that more than half of all Type 1 diabetes cases (about 62%) develop after the age of 20.
Fifty-seven percent of patients did not find out that they had Type 1 diabetes until they were 20 or older, while 37% of the patients didn’t find out until they were 30 or older. Another 22% were not diagnosed until they were at least 40.
What does this all mean?
“While it is commonly believed that Type 1 diabetes develops in childhood, our findings suggest it is not that simple,” said Fang. “Type 1 diabetes can develop at all ages.”
Still, the CDC notes that Type 1 diabetes symptoms are often initially mild, and they may go unnoticed for months or even years. On top of that, routine screening is not currently recommended.
So, might it be the case that some patients develop the disease while young, yet go undiagnosed well into adulthood?
.....Not according to Fang, who views the findings as more of an indication of “the heterogeneity of the disease,” rather than a sign that Type 1 diabetes patients are falling through the cracks.
The bottom line, he said, is that “sometimes it develops in childhood. But often it develops in later ages.”
The findings were published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Caroline Sloan is an assistant professor of medicine and population health sciences at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
Sloan, who was not part of the study team, said the findings underscore “our continued tendency as clinicians to associate Type 1 diabetes with childhood and to assume that when a person develops diabetes as an adult, it’s unlikely to be Type 1 diabetes, even in the face of strong evidence that a large proportion of patients with Type 1 diabetes develop the disease in adulthood.”
That’s a big problem, she suggested, because “if a patient’s diabetes type is misdiagnosed [as Type 2 diabetes] it could change a lot about how they’re treated, what doctors they see and their ability to control their blood sugars adequately.”
Sloan’s advice: When adults go in for diabetes screening, it’s important to deploy testing “that can help figure out the type of diabetes a person has.”
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Misdiagnosis due to medical dogma can be dangerous to your health. I know two people who developed Type 1 diabetes in their mid-40s and get misclassified as Type 2 often due to the medical dogma of Type 1 being childhood diabetes.
US Agrees to Deploy Military to Ecuador Following Presidential Candidate’s Assassination by Los Choneros Gang
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/us-deal-military-ecuador-drug-cartel-explosion
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... The Biden administration has quietly entered into agreements with Ecuador that will allow the United States to send in military forces, both on land and off the coast of the South American country, which has been heavily affected by drug cartels operating in the region.
Select members of Congress were informed during a private briefing on Capitol Hill with Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Wednesday, September 26, 2023. Lasso was in Washington to meet with State Department officials and sign two deals, according to Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), who was present at the meeting and spoke with the Washington Examiner on Thursday.
“They were announcing and signing an agreement with the United States,” said Crenshaw, who leads the Congressional Task Force to Combat Mexican Drug Cartels.
Ecuadorian President Lasso stated, “When we came to government in May 2021, the Ecuadorian criminal organizations with strong ties to the Mexican cartels were practically constituted as powerful structures that have used the prisons as centers of operation. They are economically strong, they are armed, with materials that surpass the police, and have the capacity to co-opt young people.”
The State Department has not publicized the agreements in any of the more than 30 press releases issued since Wednesday, but a State spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Friday that it had signed a status of forces agreements and maritime law enforcement agreements.
The maritime agreement allows US military vessels to be present in the waters off the northwestern coast of South America, which Colombian drug cartels use to move cocaine. The ability to move military vessels into the area will “strengthen cooperative law enforcement activities and build mutual capacity to prevent and combat illicit transnational maritime activity,” according to State.
Status of forces agreements outlines the terms by which members of a foreign military, in this case, the Defense Department, can operate or are expected to conduct themselves while in another country.
The second agreement was a less common one, according to Adam Isacson, who heads defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America and has worked on Latin American issues since 1994.
“That doesn’t mean we’re doing it, but it means we can and it means that they’re making a very clear signal to us that they want more us involved,” Crenshaw said.
The State and Defense Departments did not answer follow-up questions about the duties of troops on deployments to Ecuador and other agreements signed with Latin American countries. The US withdrew all military from the base in Manta, Ecuador, in 2009.
.....Ecuador’s Drug Violence
The country, which is not a major cocaine producer, has seen violence peak when a presidential candidate known for his tough stance on organized crime and corruption, Fernando Villavicencio, was fatally shot at the end of an August 9, 2023 campaign rally.
He had accused the Ecuadorian Los Choneros gang and its imprisoned leader, José “Fito” Adolfo Macías Villamar, whom he linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, of threatening him and his campaign team days before his assassination.
The United States recently offered a $5 million reward leading for information to the masterminds of those responsible for the assassination. Organized crime was behind the killing, Ecuador’s president said at the time.
The US also offered a $1,000,000 reward for information on any leaders in the gang responsible for his death. “The United States will continue to support the people of Ecuador and work to bring to justice individuals who seek to undermine democratic processes through violent crime,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who announced the reward, said on Thursday.
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I smell RINO WEF Crenshaw and his DoD bosses getting us involved in something they don’t want us to know about under the pretense of fighting the drug cartels.