Phil Neuffer

Adults with Graves’ disease are more likely to receive drug treatment — despite a higher failure rate — than radioactive iodine therapy or thyroid surgery, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Lifestyle interventions are the recommended first steps for treatment of diabetes and other cardiometabolic disorders. Changes to diet and physical activity can ultimately lead to weight loss and its proven benefits.

Adults with HIV are more likely to accumulate coronary plaque if they have a larger degree of visceral adipose tissue, whereas increased subcutaneous adipose tissue was associated with lower risk for atherosclerosis, according to findings published in Obesity.

Beta-cell function may deteriorate in the presence of excess fat in the liver for adults with and without diabetes, according to findings published in the Journal of Diabetes Investigation.

More pregnant Japanese women have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes and fewer births have resulted in neonatal hypoglycemia since Japan adopted new criteria for diagnosing the condition in 2010, according to findings published in the Journal of Diabetes Investigation.

Adults with differentiated thyroid cancer aged at least 55 years are more likely to experience disease recurrence and at a quicker rate than those who are younger, supporting the use of age as a factor in risk assessment, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Adults who eat a breakfast high in sugar are no more likely to go on to consume more calories during the day than adults who eat a breakfast lower in sugar, according to findings from a randomized crossover study published in Obesity.

Elevated levels of the mineralocorticoids aldosterone and 11-deoxycorticosterone were associated with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes among adult participants in the Rural Henan Cohort study, according to findings published in the Journal of Diabetes and its Complications.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday signed legislation capping monthly copayments for insulin at $25, the lowest copay cap introduced at the state level and the latest state effort to stem the rising cost of the drug, according to a press release from the governor’s office.

Adults with type 2 diabetes are at greater risk for vision loss if they have smoked, had an episode of severe hypoglycemia or an elevated urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio, according to findings published in the Journal of Diabetes and its Complications.