Articles: disease.
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Feb 2025
Early-Onset Gastrointestinal Cancers and Metabolic Risk Factors: Global Trends From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
To explore the increasing incidence of gastrointestinal (GI) cancers and related risk factors in younger patients. ⋯ Our research highlights a significant increase in early-onset GI cancer, emphasizing the need for a strategy that includes controlling risk factors, particularly metabolic risk factors, adoption of effective screening methods, and effective cancer management.
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Criminal legal involvement (CLI) has been associated with increased burden of disease, worse health outcomes, and high healthcare utilization. The health needs of women with CLI are often overlooked despite the rising proportion of women in the US legal system. ⋯ Women with lifetime CLI experience a different profile of diseases compared to men with increased prevalence of any mental illness and chronic disease, especially respiratory diseases. They also had higher rates of healthcare utilization. Additional research should focus on interventions tailored to the unique needs of this population.
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In the United States, older adults have elevated prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and incidence of tuberculosis (TB). ⋯ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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An adrenal incidentaloma (AI) is a mass discovered on imaging that was not performed for suspected adrenal diseases. Technological advancements in imaging modalities that are widely available, a growing awareness of preventive care and an aging population, have led to an increase in the detection of adrenal incidentalomas, generating diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas for clinicians. ⋯ Hormonal hypertension carries a higher risk of cardiovascular complications and target organ damage than essential hypertension, independently of blood pressure control. In this review, we discuss the current 2023 European Society of Endocrinology guidelines on the management of adrenal incidentalomas, in the context of other experts' documents (including Polish Society of Endocrinology recommendations), with the main focus on the two secondary forms of hypertension - primary aldosteronism and pheochromocytoma - that should not be missed in clinical practice.