Diabetes News

SAN DIEGO — Adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes who undergo bariatric or metabolic surgery have a lower HbA1c and greater weight loss than those who did not undergo surgery at 7 and 12 years of follow-up, according to trial data.

SAN DIEGO — Matthias Tschöp, MD, has played a major role in the recent influx of novel therapies for the treatment of diabetes and obesity.

SAN DIEGO — Adults with obesity who received the highest dose of a once-weekly injection of retatrutide lost an average of 24.2% of their body weight at 48 weeks compared with placebo, data from a phase 2 study show.

Having a low-carbohydrate breakfast may be a simple method to reduce HbA1c for those with type 2 diabetes, according to the results of a randomized trial published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

SAN DIEGO — Oral semaglutide 50 mg induces more than 15% weight loss in adults with obesity at 68 weeks and can reduce HbA1c by 2 percentage points at 52 weeks for those with type 2 diabetes, according to data from two phase 3 trials.

SAN DIEGO — People from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups participate in clinical trials at extremely low rates, and trialists have a duty to ensure participants reflect the larger community, according to a speaker.

SAN DIEGO — Early time-restricted eating may confer more cardiometabolic benefits for adults than late time-restricted eating, but a later eating window may result in better adherence, according to two speakers.

SAN DIEGO — Adults with type 1 diabetes may reduce diabetes distress through multiple types of interventions, with the greatest distress reductions observed in programs combining education with an emotional focus on diabetes.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive, Sangeeta Kashyap, MD, discusses how weight loss is the key to type 2 diabetes remission and how remission can be possible in both short- and long-term scenarios.

SAN DIEGO — A match of tennis, with its divisions of points, games and sets, is “reflective of life in many ways,” in the view of A. Enrique Caballero, MD, who said he found a new passion in the game after playing soccer for many years.