Healthy Diet Adds Decade; 16K Diabetes Deaths in Young; Cushing’s & Sleep Apnea

A young adult could add 10 years to their life expectancy just by swapping their typical Western diet with one with more legumes, whole grains, and nuts, and less red and processed meat. (PLOS Medicine)

In an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study, there were 16,300 global deaths due to diabetes — including both type 1 and 2 diabetes — in people younger than 25 in 2019; 73.7% were classified as due to type 1 diabetes. (Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)

Can prunes help postmenopausal women stave off osteoporosis? (ScienceDaily)

A federal lawsuit alleged that corrections and medical employees at an Ohio jail provided an inmate with type 1 diabetes only one dose of insulin prior to his death. (U.S. News & World Report)

A nursing student detailed on TikTok how her Apple Watch helped identify her thyroiditis condition. (Daily Mail)

Britain’s cost-effectiveness watchdog NICE recommended semaglutide (Wegovy) for weight loss in adults with overweight and obesity and called for it to be funded by the National Health Service. (The Pharmaceutical Journal)

Viewed nearly 2 million times, a recent Facebook ad for CBD gummies made false claims saying they could reverse type 1 and type 2 diabetes. (USA Today)

A new study found that people with Cushing’s syndrome were significantly more likely to have sleep apnea, including obstructive sleep apnea. (Cureus)

Zucara Therapeutics announced the publication of positive preclinical data on its investigational type 1 diabetes treatment ZT-01, a first-in-class therapeutic aimed at preventing insulin-induced hypoglycemia. (Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism)