Articles: health.
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Definitions of long COVID are evolving, and optimal models of care are uncertain. ⋯ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (Protocol posted at https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/long-covid-models-care/protocol.).
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Food insecurity is associated with adverse health outcomes, but may also have a detrimental effect on social relationships, potentially exacerbating social isolation and loneliness, and consequently affecting health-related quality of life. This study examined the associations of food insecurity with social isolation, loneliness, and health-related quality of life among U.S. adults. ⋯ Food insecurity is associated with worse social and mental well-being among U.S. adults. This suggests that food insecurity interventions should not focus too narrowly on nutrition, but instead give holistic consideration to the multiple ways food insecurity harms health-not only via lower quality diets, but through worse mental health and impairing the ability to participate in social life.
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Observational Study
Metformin Use in the First Trimester of Pregnancy and Risk for Nonlive Birth and Congenital Malformations: Emulating a Target Trial Using Real-World Data.
Metformin is a first-line pharmacotherapy for type 2 diabetes, but there is limited evidence about its safety in early pregnancy. ⋯ National Institutes of Health.
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Jul 2024
Observational StudyCounty Rurality and Incidence and Prevalence of Diagnosed Diabetes in the United States.
To examine differences in the incidence and prevalence of diagnosed diabetes by county rurality. ⋯ The crude incidence and prevalence of diagnosed diabetes increased with increasing county rurality. After accounting for sociodemographic factors including food environment, health care professionals, inactivity, and obesity, county rurality showed no association with incidence and an inverse association with prevalence. Therefore, interventions targeting modifiable sociodemographic factors may reduce diabetes disparities by region and rurality.