Is age an independent poor prognostic factor in cutaneous head and neck melanoma?
Age at diagnosis is a poor prognostic factor for patients with cutaneous head and neck carcinoma. It plays an important role in survival, with a linear increase in risk as age increases. This risk is clinically significant with patients ages 65+ years, having an HR four times the risk of patients 1 to 44 years old.
The association between plasma glucose levels and CVD risk is mainly explained by insulin resistance, which raises the question of whether glucose lowering per se without changes in the processes that underlie hyperglycemia should be the sole clinical paradigm in the treatment of type 2 diabetes or its prevention.