Glucose

Adults who ate their first meal before 8:30 a.m. each day had lower insulin resistance compared with those who started eating after 8:30 a.m., independent of eating interval duration, according to data presented at the ENDO annual meeting.

A diet centered on fruits and vegetables is associated with lower 2-hour plasma glucose levels and may attenuate higher levels seen with prolonged sitting, such as when watching TV, according to study data.

Table sugar may be less efficient in provoking a satiety response compared with oral glucose, and individual biological factors also influence peripheral hormone responses to sucrose vs. glucose consumption, study data show.

In this exclusive video, Colleen Cutcliffe, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Pendulum Therapeutics, discussed two strains of probiotics that the company is currently looking at. Patients with type 2 diabetes are missing strains to enable metabolizing fiber and albuterate and to regulate the mucin layer. Cutcliffe said Pendulum has developed a probiotic, which in a randomized placebo-controlled trial showed efficacy is patients with type 2 diabetes and dropped glucose by 30%.

Proper glucose management can help improve outcomes for individuals with diabetes who are infected with COVID-19, and providers should not deviate from current diabetes treatment, according to a speaker.

According to findings from a pilot study, adults with type 2 diabetes who replaced their usual meals with nutritional shakes experienced a 47% reduction in post-meal peak glucose.

New data from the DAPA-HF trial showed that dapagliflozin was associated with a 32% lower risk for new-onset type 2 diabetes among patients with heart failure. It was the top story in endocrinology last week.

The presence of type 2 diabetes was a significant risk factor for cognitive impairment following stroke, but investigators identified no association between prediabetes and cognitive function after stroke.

Adolescents with obesity assigned the weekly GLP-1 receptor agonist exenatide for 6 months experienced a modest reduction in BMI along with improvements in several cardiometabolic markers, including 2-hour glucose and lipid profile, according to findings published in Pediatric Obesity.

Low HDL cholesterol levels can be used to monitor long-term, average high triglyceride levels and remnant cholesterol in much the same way a high HbA1c is an indicator of long-term, average high glucose levels, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.