People With Prediabetes Significantly More Likely to Suffer a Heart Attack, Stroke
Prediabetes May Not Be As Benign as Once Thought Study shows greater risk of serious cardiac events; suggests need for more aggressive treatment. People with…
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Critical Muscle Gene Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes tend to have poorer muscle function than others. Now a research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered that…
Tsunami of Chronic Health Conditions Expected as a Result of COVID-19 Pandemic – Will Affect Society for Decades
Cardiometabolic diseases including heart disease, obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes, are at the crest of an impending tsunami of chronic health conditions as a…
New Once-Weekly Insulin Helps Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Achieve Similar Results to Daily Insulin
A new once-weekly basal insulin injection demonstrated similar efficacy and safety and a lower rate of low blood sugar episodes compared with a daily basal…
Diabetes Medication Semaglutide Reduces Excess Body Fat in People With Obesity
Findings suggest drug has potential to reduce risk of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. In adults with obesity or overweight, weekly treatment with the glucagon-like…
New Research Shows That Regular Physical Activity – Even in Polluted Areas – Is an Effective Strategy to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) shows that regular physical activity is a safe diabetes prevention…
New Data on COVID-19 Patients With Diabetes: 20% Die Within 28 Days of Hospital Admission
Updated results from the CORONADO study, analyzing the outcomes of patients with diabetes admitted to hospital with COVID-19, shows that one in five patients die…
Two-Thirds of COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Due to These Four Conditions
Model suggests higher risk based on race and age, offers insights to reduce disease impact. A modeling study suggests a majority of adult COVID-19 hospitalizations…
Promising Target for Diabetes Treatment Discovered by Scientists
Researchers have discovered a novel and druggable insulin inhibitory receptor, named inceptor. The latest study from Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, the Technical University of Munich, and…
Obesity, Impaired Metabolic Health and COVID-19: The Interconnection of Global Pandemics
In a Nature Reviews Endocrinology article authors from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) highlight the interconnection of obesity and impaired metabolic health with…
MIT Anthropologist’s View on Planetary Change and Human Health
MIT anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas reflects on the deep connection between planetary and human well-being. When anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas first went to Belize to begin ethnographic…
Obesity / Type 2 Diabetes Changes Cell Response to Glucose, Uses Slower Metabolic Path
Trans-omic network shows obese mice modeling Type 2 diabetes chart a different path for responding to glucose than healthy peers. Healthy cells and cells with…
Disturbing New Research Shows Diabetes Set to Devastate India’s Metropolitan Cities
More than half of men and two thirds of women currently aged 20 years projected to develop the condition in their lifetime. Disturbing new research…
Warning: Excess Consumption of Eggs Linked to Diabetes
Scrambled, poached, or boiled, eggs are a popular breakfast food the world over. Yet the health benefits of the humble egg might not be all…
Scientists Warn: Chemicals in Your Living Room Cause Diabetes
Mice develop diabetes after exposure through mothers. A new UC Riverside study shows flame retardants found in nearly every American home cause mice to give…
Experimental Drug Finerenone Safely Slows Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease in Clinical Trial
The findings, simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week 2020 conference, show the…
Lower Death Risk in People With Diabetes Who Drink Green Tea and Coffee Daily
Drinking plenty of both green tea and coffee is linked to a lower risk of dying from any cause among people with type 2 diabetes,…
ADHD, Bipolar, and Aggressive Behavior May Be Driven by High Fructose Intake
New peer-review paper looks at evolution and current Western diet to help explain manic behaviors. New research suggests that conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity…