Posts Tagged ‘diabetes prevalence’

Are GLP-1s Driving a Steady Decline in Obesity Rates?

October 30, 2025 — Very often, news reports about obesity rates have more puffery than substance to offer. However, a report this week from Gallup deserves your attention. It tells us that a steady decline in self-reported obesity rates appears to be a genuine trend and that an association with use of GLP-1s may explain it. In fact, for […]

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A Troubling Rise of Uncontrolled Diabetes in Young Persons

March 1, 2025 — CDC recently told us that diagnoses of diabetes have been rising – very much in line with the decades-long rise in obesity prevalence. As if that news were not sufficiently troubling, a research letter in JAMA this week tells us that adequate control of diabetes is going down. Most of that decline is happening in […]