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Early official COVID death tolls may have undercounted by 19%
-   Dino Geromella / iStock Share Nearly 156,000 more Americans may have died of COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic than officially reported, with disparities by race, education, and other factors, a machine-learning estimates. For the study, published yesterday in , a team led by a Stanford University investigator used machine learning (artificial intelligence) trained on US death certificates to ...

Source: cidrap.umn.edu
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Type 1 diabetes associated with increased dementia risk
- Patients with type 1 diabetes face increased dementia risk Adults with diabetes had an elevated risk for dementia, with a higher risk among those with type 1 compared with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in Neurology . "Diabetes mellitus is well known to be associated with elevated dementia risk, but most prior studies have focused on type 2 diabetes or have not clearly distinguished between type 1 ...

Source: healio.com