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It’s not the most glamorous of nutrients but it’s making a big comeback in research into non-infectious diseases, including diabetes.

Psychosocial factors have profound effects on the way people live with diabetes, but how can we apply findings from behavioural research to diabetes care? Two insightful, eye-opening presentations at the 202...

Do recent studies showing unprecedented success for weight loss-inducing medications spell an end for surgical interventions to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes? Far from it, say Professor Carel Le Roux and...

Semaglutide shows promise as an obesity treatment yet again, but this time in people with type 2 diabetes

Nearly all ulcers are preventable, which is why foot care and education is such a vital part of looking after diabetes patients – and took centre stage at one of the sessions of this year’s Diabe...

Continuing the EASD e-Learning Insulin@100 series, Professor Eelco de Koning turns to the subject of physiological insulin replacement by transplantation.

Fasting-induced stimulation of SIRT1 holds the key to an association between fasting regimens and the prevention of microvascular complications in diabetes, according to a new study in Diabetologia.

In a lively and thought-provoking contribution to our Insulin@100 series, Professor Tina Vilsbøll takes us on a whistlestop tour of insulin’s clinical use – past, present and future.

Study shows machine-learning-based clustering using finite mixture models can help identify phenogroups of people with type 2 diabetes, distinct clinical characteristics and cardiovascular risk.

Primary care is an ideal place to identify hypoglycaemia and help patients to avoid it in the future, according to the latest Primary Care Diabetes Europe (PCDE) webinar

Sometimes seen as the price you pay for good glycaemic control, hypoglycaemia can have a profoundly damaging impact on the lives and wellbeing of many people on insulin and other glucose-lowering therapies.&...

Severe hyperglycaemia shortly after admission to a non-ICU hospital setting in patients with COVID-19 is associated with a 7-fold increase in mortality risk, according to a study published in Diabetes Care.&...

Promising results from the Pre-POInT-early study, which investigated the safety and immune effects of high-dose oral insulin immunotherapy in children before the age of 2, when they are most susceptible to d...

The latest feature in our series celebrating Insulin@100 focuses on the potent but precarious synergy of exercise and insulin.

In lock step with the pandemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes, another, less talked about condition is on the rise: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Results from the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and Diabetes Outcomes (CORONADO) study have identified variables linked to hospital discharge or to death among patients with diabetes hospitalised for COVID-19, estab...

That patients should play a central role in managing their condition is now a generally acknowledged truism of diabetes care – at least in theory. What’s less widely spoken of are the many ways i...

As the obesity pandemic accelerates, the search for a safe, affordable, practicable, minimally invasive solution has become ever more urgent. The need to tackle this crisis has been further highlighted by th...