Actress Shelley Duvall died on Thursday, at age 75, from complications of diabetes. The disease had Duvall, best known for her roles in The Shining, Popeye, and a series of 1970s Robert Altman films, in hospice and bedridden for months in her home of Blanco, Texas, according to her longtime partner Dan Gilroy.
Diabetes is actually the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the American Diabetes Association, killing 100,000 people in both 2021 and 2022. It is the most common underlying condition of disease in the U.S., according to report in the journal BMJ, and some 40% of people who died of COVID-19 had diabetes.
