Researchers followed glucose monitor users for three years and found a possible kidney benefit
Continuous blood glucose monitoring could offer benefits beyond daily diabetes management, but what happens to blood sugar control…
What people ate at the start of a 20-year study was linked to their heart failure odds
Diet records from the early 2000s offer a window into how everyday food choices and existing health conditions…
Consuming fat before carbohydrates reduces post-meal blood glucose
In treating diabetes, post-meal elevation of glucose levels is an important therapeutic target. Existing clinical studies indicate that…
Semaglutide cuts major heart events, but researchers still cannot fully explain why
A detailed analysis of the SELECT trial examined how much of the reduction in major heart events could…
GLP-1 drugs appear psychiatrically safe, but one finding still raises questions
With millions of patients now taking GLP-1 drugs, researchers examined whether concerns about depression and suicidality are supported…
From caffeine to trigonelline, coffee has surprising links to muscle biology
From NAD+ metabolism and glucose uptake to muscle mass and frailty, researchers mapped how coffee and its compounds…
Thinning cancer cells’ sugar coating could expose tumors to immune attack
Like spies evading detection through being masters of disguise, many cancer cells are adorned with a copious coat…
Ten-million-person study links semaglutide to lower COVID-19 mortality
After accounting for major health differences between semaglutide users and non-users, researchers identified a striking mortality association that…
Cold-exposed mothers pass metabolic protection to male rat offspring through milk
Cold exposure during early pregnancy altered breast milk bile acids and microbial metabolism, providing male rat offspring with…
Metformin targets the gut instead of the liver to lower glucose
For decades, physicians and scientists thought metformin, the leading Type 2 diabetes medication taken by millions worldwide, mainly…
New polygenic risk scores improve prediction of metabolic disease outcomes
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity are metabolic conditions with many causes, including overlapping and distinct genetic features.…
Gut bacteria patterns help predict insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes, study finds
A new study shows that gut microbiome signatures, analyzed through advanced machine learning, can help identify individuals with…