Diabetes News

Adults who contract COVID-19 have a higher risk for developing incident diabetes in the 90 days after the infection compared with before the infection, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

About 50% of patients with gestational diabetes followed up with primary care in the first year postpartum, despite guidelines recommending universal follow up to improve health outcomes, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

Adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes who primarily attend diabetes clinic visits via telehealth have better overall attendance and less diabetes distress compared with those who attend in person, according to study data.

In this video exclusive, Caroline T. Nguyen, MD, talks with Steven G. Gabbe, MD, about caring for women with type 1 diabetes during pregnancy.

The proportion of adults with diabetes and obesity in the U.S. increased from 1999 to 2020, though more adults achieved blood pressure and lipid control during that period, according to a study published in Obesity.

Among midlife women participating in a large longitudinal study, certain phthalate metabolites were associated with higher diabetes incidence over 6 years — but only among white women, according to data published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Fewer people with diabetes filled glucagon prescriptions in 2021 compared with 2011, though increases were seen among those with type 1 diabetes and adults with a history of severe hypoglycemia, according to study data.

A 12-month aerobic exercise program reduced the risk for type 2 diabetes among people with central obesity over 10 years, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

About one-third of adults who were prescribed a GLP-1 receptor agonist to treat type 2 diabetes lost at least 5% of their body weight at 72 weeks, according to findings from a real-world retrospective analysis.

A brief alcohol-related intervention in people with unhealthy alcohol use was linked to reduction of diastolic BP in patients with hypertension but did not improve outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes, researchers reported.