4sight Health May 28, 2024
A few times during my journalism career I’ve seen seemingly unrelated trends bump into each other and spark a novel insight. This happened recently when I was working on a piece for WebMD about the surge in the heart failure mortality rate over the past decade. I wondered why this kind of death should be growing in a rich country like the U.S., especially after dropping during the 2000s.
The experts I interviewed mostly blamed the significant increase in obesity and diabetes during recent years. A prominent government scientist, Veronique Roger, MD, opined that the blame shouldn’t be on doctors. People were eating the wrong foods, ignoring fresh items in favor of food products created by an industry more interested...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor