European Society of Cardiology: cardiovascular disease statistics 2021

A Timmis, P Vardas, N Townsend… - European Heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Aims This report from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Atlas Project updates and
expands upon the widely cited 2019 report in presenting cardiovascular disease (CVD) …

Pancreatic cancer epidemiology: understanding the role of lifestyle and inherited risk factors

AP Klein - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide and its global burden has
more than doubled over the past 25 years. The highest incidence regions for pancreatic …

Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

A Mahajan, CN Spracklen, W Zhang, MCY Ng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus in older adults: clinical considerations and management

S Bellary, I Kyrou, JE Brown, CJ Bailey - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2021 - nature.com
The past 50 years have seen a growing ageing population with an increasing prevalence of
type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM); now, nearly half of all individuals with diabetes mellitus are …

Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus

U Galicia-Garcia, A Benito-Vicente, S Jebari… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), one of the most common metabolic disorders, is caused
by a combination of two primary factors: defective insulin secretion by pancreatic β-cells and …

The Lancet Commission on diabetes: using data to transform diabetes care and patient lives

JCN Chan, LL Lim, NJ Wareham, JE Shaw, TJ Orchard… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Executive summary 2020 will go down in history as the year when the global community was
awakened to the fragility of human health and the interdependence of the ecosystem …

Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries

V Kontis, JE Bennett, T Rashid, RM Parks… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed many social,
economic, environmental and healthcare determinants of health. We applied an ensemble …

[HTML][HTML] Insulin resistance: from mechanisms to therapeutic strategies

SH Lee, SY Park, CS Choi - Diabetes & Metabolism Journal, 2022 - synapse.koreamed.org
Insulin resistance is the pivotal pathogenic component of many metabolic diseases,
including type 2 diabetes mellitus, and is defined as a state of reduced responsiveness of …

Global burden of 5 major types of gastrointestinal cancer

M Arnold, CC Abnet, RE Neale, J Vignat… - Gastroenterology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background & Aims There were an estimated 4.8 million new cases of gastrointestinal (GI)
cancers and 3.4 million related deaths, worldwide, in 2018. GI cancers account for 26% of …

Pancreatic β-cells in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: different pathways to failure

DL Eizirik, L Pasquali, M Cnop - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2020 - nature.com
Loss of functional β-cell mass is the key mechanism leading to the two main forms of
diabetes mellitus—type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) …