Endocrinology News

Both children and adults are more likely to be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes if they have a father with type 1 diabetes vs. a mother with the condition, according to a speaker.

Time in the market is far more important than timing the market. Long-term investors will utilize both the strategies of dollar cost averaging and lump sum investing to reach their investment goals.

For nearly 2 decades, George L. Bakris, MD, was a pillar of the Cardiometabolic Health Congress, sharing his expertise, passion and unwavering dedication to advancing cardiometabolic health.

The Federal Trade Commission announced it has filed an administrative complaint against three pharmacy benefit managers alleging “anticompetitive and unfair” rebate practices that have artificially inflated the price of insulin drugs.

Novo Nordisk announced that monlunabant, a novel small molecule oral cannabinoid receptor 1 inverse agonist, was associated with weight loss in a phase 2a study of people with obesity and metabolic syndrome.

In a small study of patients with type 1 diabetes using an automated insulin delivery system, semaglutide improved glucose control vs. placebo, researchers reported at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Annual Meeting.

BMI in the overweight or obese range for both women and men during preconception or early pregnancy was linked to time to pregnancy success and miscarriage risk, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have a higher likelihood of experiencing infertility and subfertility, which can harm mental health and trigger stress, but not everyone with this disorder will require assisted reproduction to conceive.

Adults with type 1 diabetes using either semaglutide or tirzepatide off-label had greater decreases in body weight and HbA1c than those not treated with either medication, according to a speaker.

Among patients with Barrett’s esophagus, every 5 kg/m2 increase in BMI was associated with up to a 6% relative increase in the risk for malignant progression, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.