Diabetes News

May 20, 2025

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Scientists Discover Key Gene Impacts Liver Energy Storage, Affecting Metabolic Disease Risk

May 16, 2025 — A new study reveals that a single gene plays a big role in how the liver stores energy, a process that's critical for overall health and for managing diseases like type 2 diabetes. The research ...

Can the Brain Be Targeted to Treat Type 2 Diabetes?

May 15, 2025 — Successfully treating type 2 diabetes may involve focusing on brain neurons, rather than simply concentrating on obesity or insulin resistance, according to a new study. For several years, researchers have known that hyperactivity of a subset of ...

Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Death

May 14, 2025 — A new study shows that people who develop type 1 diabetes in adulthood have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death, and that those diagnosed later in life do not have a better ...

Colonic Inflammation Explains Missing Link Between Obesity and Beta-Cell Proliferation

May 9, 2025 — How does obesity affect insulin production? Researchers are shining light on new stages of the ERK ...

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Dual-Action Approach Targeting Inflammation Shows Potential as Type 1 Diabetes Treatment

May 7, 2025 — A new strategy may help prevent or slow the progression of Type 1 ...

Risk Groups for Type 2 Diabetes Can Also Be Identified at an Older Age

May 7, 2025 — A recent study found that six cardiometabolic risk groups previously identified in middle-aged individuals can also be applied to older adults without diabetes. Using data from the KORA F4/FF4 study ...

A Healthy Diet in Childhood Is Linked to Starting Menstrual Periods Later, Regardless of BMI or Height

May 6, 2025 — Eating a healthy diet as a child is linked to girls having their first menstrual period at an older age than those who consumed a less healthy diet, ...

Low Blood Sugar Contributes to Eye Damage and Vision Loss in Diabetic Retinopathy; Experimental Drug May Help Treat Condition

May 6, 2025 — Scientists say they have determined that low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, may promote a breakdown of the blood-retinal barrier, an important ...

How Cellular Quality Control Contributes to Insulin Resistance Related to Type 2 Diabetes

May 2, 2025 — Researchers have revealed critical insights into how impaired mitochondrial dynamics and quality control mechanisms in skeletal muscle influence ...

Semaglutide Treats Liver Disease in Two Thirds of Patients

Apr. 30, 2025 — Semaglutide effectively treats liver disease in two thirds of patients, new research has ...

Is your Heart Aging Too Fast?

May 1, 2025 — Researchers have developed a revolutionary new way to find out the 'true age' of your heart using MRI. A new study shows how an MRI scan can reveal your heart's functional age -- and how unhealthy ...

High Blood Sugar in Adolescence Tripled the Risk of Premature Heart Damage Affecting Females Worse Than Males

Apr. 28, 2025 — Persistently high blood sugar and insulin resistance significantly increased the risk of worsening functional and structural heart damage during ...

Drug Combination Reduces Breast Cancer Risk and Improves Metabolic Health in Rats

Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers investigated the combined effects of bazedoxifene and conjugated estrogens in rat models as an alternative to ...

Why Our Waistlines Expand in Middle Age: Stem Cells

Apr. 25, 2025 — It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism, increasing our risk for developing ...

FRESH Bioprinting Brings Vascularized Tissue One Step Closer

Apr. 23, 2025 — Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, a lab has built a tissue model entirely out of ...

Tuning in to Blood Glucose for Simpler Early Diabetes Detection

Apr. 22, 2025 — Scientists have identified a simple, noninvasive method for assessing blood glucose regulation using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data. Their approach, which tracks glucose fluctuations, ...

New Analytics-Driven Framework Aims to Improve Care of Chronic Disease

Apr. 21, 2025 — A data-informed approach to scheduling patient encounters with clinicians can reduce risks associated with diabetes management by up to 19.4%, especially for underserved populations, says new ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Drugs like Ozempic, other blood sugar-reducing medications, may stave off ...

Sharp Uptake in Use of New Weight Loss and Glucose-Lowering Medications

Apr. 14, 2025 — Researchers found that by December 2023, more than 1 in 3 of the medications being started for type 2 diabetes treatment were GLP-1RA-based ...

Gestational Diabetes Linked to ADHD in Children

Apr. 14, 2025 — A new study has found children born to mothers who experienced gestational diabetes (GDM) during pregnancy are more likely to develop attention-deficient hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and externalizing ...

Researchers Put Glycemic Response Modeling on a Data Diet

Apr. 10, 2025 — Data-sparse method opens door to personalized nutrition -- without the stool ...

High Muscle Strength Linked to Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

Apr. 8, 2025 — Researchers conducted a large-scale epidemiological study to explore the potential health benefits of high muscle strength in preventing type 2 diabetes (T2D) across varying levels of genetic risk. ...

Students Lead Breakthrough Study on Diabetes Drugs and Dementia Risk

Apr. 8, 2025 — Two undergraduate medicine students have led a major study examining how cardioprotective glucose-lowering therapies -- medications that lower blood sugar and reduce the risk of heart disease in ...

Carb Restriction Offers Relief from Calorie Counting

Apr. 8, 2025 — The intermittent fasting diet, which involves periods of severe calorie restriction, may be on the way out, as research is suggesting that rather than drastically reducing calories, people can ...

Parents' Metabolic Traits Can Affect the Child's Health Over Time

Apr. 8, 2025 — Research shows that the biological parents' genes affect the child's insulin function and capacity to regulate blood sugar levels and blood lipids in different ways. Such knowledge may be ...

CVD and Obesity: When Protective Lipids Decline, Health Risks Increase

Apr. 8, 2025 — New research has uncovered a surprising culprit underlying cardiovascular diseases in obesity and diabetes -- not the presence of certain fats, but their suppression. The study challenges the ...

New Options for Controlling Type 2 Diabetes

Apr. 1, 2025 — Nearly 40% of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes imperil their health by stopping their medication within the first year, diabetes experts ...

Hypertension Causes Kidney Changes at an Early Stage

Mar. 27, 2025 — A research team has investigated structural changes in kidneys of patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes. The results show that high blood pressure can lead to abnormalities in the podocytes, ...

Smartwatches May Help Control Diabetes Through Exercise

Mar. 27, 2025 — Wearable mobile health technology could help people with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) to stick to exercise regimes that help them to keep the condition under control, a new study reveals. An international ...

Study Unlocks How Diabetes Distorts Memory and Reward Processing

Mar. 26, 2025 — A research team says high blood sugar levels appear to weaken function in key part of brain, mimicking ...

Research Finds Potential 'Molecular Mimics' Behind COVID-Induced Autoimmune Disease

Mar. 26, 2025 — Scientists used advanced data analysis and machine learning to identify the viral proteins that may trigger autoimmune disorders such as type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid ...

Milk as Medicine: Breast Milk Transforms Challenges Into Triumphs

Mar. 25, 2025 — In 2010, a researcher was pouring over research data when he discovered something he thought was odd: His data showed that at 6 months of age, formula-fed babies born of mothers who were categorized ...

Antibiotic Exposure in Infancy May Boost Type 1 Diabetes Risk

Mar. 25, 2025 — Exposure to antibiotics during a key developmental window in infancy can stunt growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas and may boost risk of diabetes later in life, new research in mice ...

Shaping the Future of Diabetes Treatment With 3D Bioprinting Technology

Mar. 19, 2025 — An innovative platform replicates pancreatic functions, transforming diabetes ...