Endocrinology News

Eating a low-fat vegan diet induced a greater improvement in insulin sensitivity and a larger reduction in total daily insulin dose than a portion-controlled diet for adults with type 1 diabetes, according to study findings.

Adults with endogenous Cushing’s syndrome had reductions in blood pressure and glucose at 22 weeks of treatment with a selective cortisol modulator, according to topline results from the open-label portion of the GRACE phase 3 trial.

When it comes to work-life balance, providers in the past skewed more toward work than life.

Women with preterm birth, small for gestational age infants, preeclampsia, hypertensive disorders or gestational diabetes had increased mortality risks persisting more than 40 years after delivery, researchers reported.

Annual expenditures for diabetes medications more than tripled in the U.S. from 2011 to 2020, and the increase played a role in an overall rise in money spent on prescription drugs, according to study findings.

Food insecurity was associated with lower odds of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease among patients with HIV, although the presence of diabetes increased the odds of fibrosis in this population, according to data.

BOSTON — Intermittent fasting is a popular weight loss technique, but there are a few considerations that physicians should keep in mind when discussing it with their patients, according to a presenter at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

BOSTON — Time-restricted eating did not result in more weight loss vs. a usual eating pattern, suggesting that overall caloric intake may have a larger effect on weight loss than meal timing, researchers reported.

Some changes in gut microbiome composition may increase the risk for obesity, with those changes affecting men and women differently, according to data that will be presented at the European Congress on Obesity.

Childhood adiposity could predict future polycystic ovary syndrome in girls, according to a study published in Pediatrics.