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Health disparities in diabetes care arise from many causes. A new study in a recent issue of Diabetologia uses the ACCORD trial to explore the influence of racial, ethnic and economic factors in achieving di...

One of the tasks that can be performed by artificial intelligence (AI) is diagnosing diabetic retinopathy from a retinal photograph with a performance that rivals that of a human grader. A new review in Diab...

A new study reported in Diabetologia looks at the risk factors for developing diabetes among a cohort of pregnant women after giving birth. The research shows that decline in beta cell function is ranked as ...

Factors other than hyperglycaemia influence complications for both mother and baby in a pregnancy affected by type 1 diabetes. New metabolomic findings from the CONCEPTT trial, reported in Diabetologia, shed...

A number of drugs that mimic or enhance incretin agonism are now being used for glucose lowering in diabetes. They have proven cardiovascular safety and may even reduce cardiovascular complications. A new re...

A new population-based study, reported in a recent issue of Diabetologia, uses confocal microscopy to show that dysfunctional glucose metabolism is linked to corneal neurodegeneration. The findings suggest t...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists have improved outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes in recent years with their glucose-lowering and weight-loss effects. This has fuelled interest in the therapeutic poten...

As rates of heart disease in diabetes fall thanks to improved prevention and treatment, cancer is coming to prominence as a complication and cause of excess death. However, a new paper in Diabetes Care repor...

The timing of moderate-to-vigorous exercise has an impact on HbA1c, with the afternoon hours being more favourable. This aspect of lifestyle intervention comes from the Look AHEAD trial in type 2 diabetes an...

While the recent 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin was widely acknowledged in the diabetes community, much less attention has been paid to the centenary of its vital counter-regulatory hormo...

A new review in Diabetologia looks at how genetic risk scores are already being applied, both at the pre-clinical stages of type 1 diabetes and to more accurate classification of type 1, type 2 and other for...

A new study in Diabetologia finds that people with type 2 diabetes who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are less likely to be prescribed incretin-based therapies, including GLP-1 receptor agonists, even t...

One in five people with type 2 diabetes have a normal or low body weight, with reduced muscle mass relative to their fat mass. A new study reported in Diabetologia shows that they have more to gain from stre...

The presence of severe mental illness can worsen cardiovascular morbidity and mortality suggests a study based on a nationwide type 2 diabetes cohort, reported in Diabetes Care. This high-risk group therefor...

A new study, based on type 1 diabetes audit data and reported in Diabetes Care, shows that failure to engage with services, hyperglycaemia and diabetic ketoacidosis peak in late adolescence. Therefore, innov...

Real-world data is changing the landscape of research into diabetes outcomes. The opportunities and challenges offered by this new approach are discussed in a recent article in Diabetes Care. Dr Susan Aldrid...

A clinical trial reported in Diabetologia compares once-weekly insulin icodec with once-daily insulin glargine U100 in type 2 diabetes with respect to hypoglycaemia. Dr Susan Aldridge reports.

A new review in Diabetologia looks at the very earliest stages of type 1 diabetes, focusing on the beta cell injury and the inflammatory immune response that set the scene for an autoimmune attack. This rece...

A new study reported in Diabetologia shows that the association between prediabetes and dementia can be explained by the development of clinical diabetes. Preventing or delaying the progression of prediabete...

Research on the impact of physical activity on health outcomes is hampered by its reliance on participants’ self-reporting of their daily exercise, which is subjective. A new study, reported in Diabete...

A new review, reported in Diabetologia, looks at the glycaemic impact of different forms of exercise performed after a meal in people with type 1 diabetes. The findings should help inform more detailed guide...