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A study of adults aged 60 years and older found that the use of statin therapy as primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention was effective for preventing CVD and all-cause mortality, even in adults aged 85 years and older. The study is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
In this population based cohort study of >37,000 people in Hong Kong, Hongjiang Wu and colleagues examine 1-year weight change after diabetes diagnosis with long-term incidence and sustainability of diabetes remission.
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In an observational cohort study, Hongjiang Wu and colleagues analyse data from more than 1.5 million people Hong Kong between 2002 and 2018 and compare age- and sex-specific rates of all-cause and cause-specific hospital bed-day rates in those with and without type 2 diabetes.