David Flood

Attainment of global diabetes targets in 2021: a pooled analysis of individual-level data from national surveys in 100 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries There are pronounced inequities at multiple levels in the attainment of global diabetes metrics. Substantial progress is needed to reduce inequities and to achieve the 2030 targets.

Please check out: "Attainment of global diabetes targets in 2021: a pooled analysis of individual-level data from national surveys in 100 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries"

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The reporting on Summers has been terrible. He was using is power as a mentor to prey on a mentee. Journalists need to stop acting like this was a workplace romance.

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Even discounting Kelly's future cash flows at 5-6%, the present value of his contract is ~$45mm, meaning he leaves $20mm on the table by taking the $25mm deal.

But LSU apparently offered to cut out his "duty to mitigate" clause, which allows LSU to offset payments against Kelly's future earnings.

Please find our comment describing concerns about this review:

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@mikejohansenmd.medsky.social The fatal flaw is they pre-specified a clinically relevant absolute risk threshold without considering time horizon or base rate.

The base rate in these trials of <1 year was 0.5%, which is less than the 1% absolute risk reduction they said was clinically significant.

This RRR is even greater than that for high-intensity statins in meta analyses!

I think in the present era Cochrane probably does more harm than good.

The pediatric world is different but I am not convinced of this idea:

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The other thing is that the methods of the per protocol analyses are summarized in one paragraph without much detail. No mention in supplement. These analyses are not trivial (including simulation!), like another full paper. I would like to see what assumptions and methods are being used here.

This is what I see

She was a truly remarkable person... her intellect, empathy, and moral clarity. No one else like her. Happy b-day Shekinah.

From Peter Drucker's memoir, "Adventures of a Bystander:"

Drucker was a Lecturer at Frankfurt University in February 1933 when this took place, roughly 1 month after Hitler took power.

@minnajohansson.bsky.social Thanks for writing this paper. Too many people overstate the benefit and understate the opportunity costs of promoting of individual behavior change in primary care.

Annals On Call - Lifestyle Recommendations: Can They Really Improve Public Health? | Annals of Internal Medicine

Hey Mike did you listen to this terrific Annals podcast with Minna Johannson that touches on this topic?

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