Artery stiffness may predict Type 2 diabetes risk better than BP and standard risk factors
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Arterial stiffness was a better predictor of future risk of Type 2 diabetes than blood pressure, and people with a...
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Vegan diets boost weight loss, lower blood sugar in adults with overweight or type 2 diabetes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A 12-week vegan diet may result in clinically meaningful weight loss and improve blood sugar control in overweight adults and...
Active brown adipose tissue protects against ‘pre-prediabetes’
Images showing detection and segmentation of brown adipose tissue on FDG PET in order to measure total brown adipose tissue volume. Credit: Journal of...
Food insecurity risk related to diabetes later in life
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Young adults who were at risk of food insecurity had increased incidence of diabetes 10 years later, according to a...
Nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx is taking aim at the high insulin prices harming people with diabetes
Dates provided indicate price hikes for this product. Credit: The Conversation Doctors have been treating diabetes with insulin since 1922. A century later, about...
A healthy lifestyle helps to prevent gestational diabetes in those at highest genetic risk — ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a genetic-risk score for identifying individuals who would benefit the most from lifestyle counselling to prevent gestational and postpartum diabetes. Gestational...
Outcomes worse for children with type 1 diabetes who are Black
Black children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) experience disparities in health outcomes compared with other racial and ethnic groups with similar neighborhood opportunity profiles,...
Stem cell therapy protects against the side effects of cancer drugs — ScienceDaily
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are widely used to treat a variety of cancers; however, one serious side effect is the onset of type 1 diabetes....
Screening some patients sooner may reduce racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes diagnosis, researchers show
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Diabetes is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, affecting more than 34 million adults and...
Active brown adipose tissue protects against ‘pre-prediabetes’ — ScienceDaily
In a prospective study of young, lean adults, PET/CT imaging revealed that higher levels of active brown adipose tissue (also known as “brown fat”)...