Diabetes Education News

Providers should focus more on using pharmacotherapies in addition to lifestyle intervention to prevent progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes, according to two researchers.

Diagnostic testing for hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolemia remains low globally, driven by substantial shares of low- and middle-income populations who are not tested despite meeting WHO criteria.

Physical activity during the morning and afternoon, but not during the evening, is associated with a lower risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to findings published in Diabetologia.

Women who have a higher thyroid-stimulating hormone level early in pregnancy may have an increased risk for developing gestational diabetes, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Women with a history of gestational diabetes had a greater risk for subsequent mortality over 30 years compared with women who have been pregnant without gestational diabetes history, according to cohort study results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Most people with type 1 diabetes using an insulin-only bionic pancreas said the device provided more benefits than burdens and stated they would recommend the device, according to findings published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics.

Adults with type 1 diabetes may have transient increases in glucose levels in the days after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine booster, according to a study published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.

All-cause and cardiovascular mortality rates remained flat from 2006 to 2020 for people with type 1 diabetes who had a first-time myocardial infarction, despite mortality rates declining for type 2 diabetes, according to two presenters.

Low-dose aspirin may help lower the risk for developing diabetes among older adults, according to data that will be presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting.

Middle-aged women with an evening chronotype were more likely to report unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and faced an increased risk for diabetes, researchers found.