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High Blood Sugar in Adolescence Tripled the Risk of Premature Heart Damage Affecting Females Worse Than Males

Apr. 28, 2025 — Persistently high blood sugar and insulin resistance significantly increased the risk of worsening functional and structural heart damage during growth from adolescence to young adulthood, a new ...

Drug Combination Reduces Breast Cancer Risk and Improves Metabolic Health in Rats

Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers investigated the combined effects of bazedoxifene and conjugated estrogens in rat models as an alternative to ...

Why Our Waistlines Expand in Middle Age: Stem Cells

Apr. 25, 2025 — It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism, increasing our risk for developing diabetes, heart problems and other chronic diseases. ...

FRESH Bioprinting Brings Vascularized Tissue One Step Closer

Apr. 23, 2025 — Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, a lab has built a tissue model entirely out of ...

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Tuning in to Blood Glucose for Simpler Early Diabetes Detection

Apr. 22, 2025 — Scientists have identified a simple, noninvasive method for assessing blood glucose regulation using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data. Their approach, which tracks glucose fluctuations, ...

New Analytics-Driven Framework Aims to Improve Care of Chronic Disease

Apr. 21, 2025 — A data-informed approach to scheduling patient encounters with clinicians can reduce risks associated with diabetes management by up to 19.4%, especially for underserved populations, says new ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Drugs like Ozempic, other blood sugar-reducing medications, may stave off ...

Sharp Uptake in Use of New Weight Loss and Glucose-Lowering Medications

Apr. 14, 2025 — Researchers found that by December 2023, more than 1 in 3 of the medications being started for type 2 diabetes treatment were GLP-1RA-based ...

Gestational Diabetes Linked to ADHD in Children

Apr. 14, 2025 — A new study has found children born to mothers who experienced gestational diabetes (GDM) during pregnancy are more likely to develop attention-deficient hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and externalizing ...

Researchers Put Glycemic Response Modeling on a Data Diet

Apr. 10, 2025 — Data-sparse method opens door to personalized nutrition -- without the stool ...

Carb Restriction Offers Relief from Calorie Counting

Apr. 8, 2025 — The intermittent fasting diet, which involves periods of severe calorie restriction, may be on the way out, as research is suggesting that rather than drastically reducing calories, people can ...

Parents' Metabolic Traits Can Affect the Child's Health Over Time

Apr. 8, 2025 — Research shows that the biological parents' genes affect the child's insulin function and capacity to regulate blood sugar levels and blood lipids in different ways. Such knowledge may be used to to ...

High Muscle Strength Linked to Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

Apr. 8, 2025 — Researchers conducted a large-scale epidemiological study to explore the potential health benefits of high muscle strength in preventing type 2 diabetes (T2D) across varying levels of genetic risk. ...

Students Lead Breakthrough Study on Diabetes Drugs and Dementia Risk

Apr. 8, 2025 — Two undergraduate medicine students have led a major study examining how cardioprotective glucose-lowering therapies -- medications that lower blood sugar and reduce the risk of heart disease in ...

CVD and Obesity: When Protective Lipids Decline, Health Risks Increase

Apr. 8, 2025 — New research has uncovered a surprising culprit underlying cardiovascular diseases in obesity and diabetes -- not the presence of certain fats, but their suppression. The study challenges the ...

New Options for Controlling Type 2 Diabetes

Apr. 1, 2025 — Nearly 40% of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes imperil their health by stopping their medication within the first year, diabetes experts ...

Hypertension Causes Kidney Changes at an Early Stage

Mar. 27, 2025 — A research team has investigated structural changes in kidneys of patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes. The results show that high blood pressure can lead to abnormalities in the podocytes, ...

Smartwatches May Help Control Diabetes Through Exercise

Mar. 27, 2025 — Wearable mobile health technology could help people with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) to stick to exercise regimes that help them to keep the condition under control, a new study reveals. An international ...

Study Unlocks How Diabetes Distorts Memory and Reward Processing

Mar. 26, 2025 — A research team says high blood sugar levels appear to weaken function in key part of brain, mimicking ...

Research Finds Potential 'Molecular Mimics' Behind COVID-Induced Autoimmune Disease

Mar. 26, 2025 — Scientists used advanced data analysis and machine learning to identify the viral proteins that may trigger autoimmune disorders such as type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid ...

Milk as Medicine: Breast Milk Transforms Challenges Into Triumphs

Mar. 25, 2025 — In 2010, a researcher was pouring over research data when he discovered something he thought was odd: His data showed that at 6 months of age, formula-fed babies born of mothers who were categorized ...

Antibiotic Exposure in Infancy May Boost Type 1 Diabetes Risk

Mar. 25, 2025 — Exposure to antibiotics during a key developmental window in infancy can stunt growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas and may boost risk of diabetes later in life, new research in mice ...

Shaping the Future of Diabetes Treatment With 3D Bioprinting Technology

Mar. 19, 2025 — An innovative platform replicates pancreatic functions, transforming diabetes ...

Continuous Glucose Monitors Can Optimize Diabetic Ketoacidosis Management

Mar. 18, 2025 — Researchers show that using continuous glucose monitors can help measure glucose accurately during DKA and potentially prevent ICUs from being ...

Mother's High-Fat Diet Can Cause Liver Stress in Fetus

Mar. 13, 2025 — When mothers eat a diet high in fat and sugars, their unborn babies can develop liver stress that continues into early life. A new study sheds light on changes to the fetus's bile acid, which ...

Managing Your Diabetes Can Help Prevent Associated Vision Loss

Mar. 12, 2025 — Although there is no cure, diabetic retinal disease treatment has improved over the past two ...

Minimal TV Viewing May Be Protective for Heart Diseases Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

Mar. 12, 2025 — A sedentary lifestyle such as watching TV (two or more hours daily) may be a key factor in the risk of developing heart and blood vessel diseases, according to an analysis of health records from a ...

New Tech for Managing Type 1 Diabetes Is Effective for Older Adults

Mar. 11, 2025 — New research suggests that automated insulin delivery (AID) systems are safe and effective for use by older adults with type 1 diabetes. The findings counter common assumptions that older adults ...

Receiving Low-Glucose Alerts Improves Diabetic Drivers' Safety on the Road

Mar. 10, 2025 — A Japanese study has found that the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices, equipped with sensors that alert diabetics when their blood sugar levels drop, can potentially make diabetic ...

Early-Life Gut Microbes May Protect Against Diabetes, Research in Mice Suggests

Mar. 6, 2025 — The microbiome shapes development of insulin-producing cells in infancy, leading to long-term changes in metabolism and diabetes risk, new research in mice has found. The results could ultimately ...

Links Between Metabolism and Aggressive Breast Cancer

Mar. 6, 2025 — More than 120 million Americans suffer from diabetes or pre-diabetes. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer, and TNBC patients with obesity-driven diabetes ...

Diabetes Drug Could Help Cancer Patients Make Better Recovery

Mar. 5, 2025 — Research shows that a common type of diabetes medication could help cancer patients make a better long-term recovery. Many cancer patients go on to develop heart failure -- because of the cancer ...

Researchers Identify Molecular Glues That Protect Insulin-Producing Cells from Damage Related to Diabetes

Mar. 4, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a novel approach to protecting insulin-producing beta cells from the damaging effects of glucolipotoxicity - a harmful condition linked to the progression of type 2 ...

Obesity: Researchers Discover a Cause of Leptin Resistance -- And How to Reverse It

Mar. 4, 2025 — Most obese patients grow resistant to satiety signals from the hormone leptin. A new study shows that leptin sensitivity can be restored in mice, leading to weight ...