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Understanding the psychology of severe hypos that are driven by hypoglycaemia unawareness could go a long way to alleviating this common complication of insulin therapy. A new paper in Diabetologia describes...

The threat posed by COVID-19 may be receding, but the diabetes pandemic rages on and now requires our full attention, according to an opinion piece in a recent issue of Diabetologia. A study in the same issu...

A new review in Diabetologia shines a light on the complex relationship between lipid lowering and diabetic retinopathy. Further understanding of retinal cholesterol metabolism, including the formation of ch...

Gestational diabetes can have a serious impact on the health of both mother and baby. But according to a recent review in Diabetologia,there is scope now for a more precise approach to its prevention based o...

Type 1 diabetes may begin with DNA changes that influence gene expression, according to a report in a recent paper in Diabetologia from researchers in Finland. And detection of this epigenetic signature coul...

An overemphasis upon biomedical science could prevent precision medicine from addressing health inequalities fully. As researchers try to move away from ‘one size fits all’ in healthcare, in a re...

A review in a recent issue of Diabetologia suggests there is more to prediabetes than just an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Impaired glucose metabolism in prediabetes is also associated with ...

Modern lifestyles may have a detrimental effect on metabolism through exposure to bright and dim light at times that are out of sync with natural day-night rhythms. A study reported in a recent issue of Diab...

Restricting carbohydrate reduces HbA1cand glucose variability more than a conventional weight-loss diet does, according to a study from researchers in Denmark published in a recent issue of Diabetologia. Dr ...

We’ve come a long way in improving pregnancy outcomes for women with type 1 diabetes, but research continues and drug companies are advancing their insulin offerings. In the latest episode in our Insul...

A new study, reported in Diabetologia in January, tested the performance of 22 cardiovascular risk scores in primary care data from people with type 2 diabetes. The findings suggest these tools do not provid...

It has long been evident that labelling people with diabetes as having either type 1 or type 2 does not reflect the complexity of the condition. A paper in a recent issue of Diabetologia reviews evidence fro...

A real-world study of people with type 1 diabetes in Scotland, reported in a recent issue of Diabetologia, shows that adopting flash monitoring reduces HbA1c, as well as hospital admissions for diabetic keto...

Weight loss – an important goal for those with or at risk of type 2 diabetes – is high on many people’s list of New Year’s resolutions. For those wanting to lose weight in 2022, a new...

A long-established treatment for gout, colchicine – the world’s oldest anti-inflammatory drug – can attack COVID-19 inflammation at several points and has shown promising results in a clini...

To date, most genetic studies in type 2 diabetes have been limited to people of European ancestry, even though the increasing prevalence of the condition is set to hit low- to middle-income countries hardest...

Second-generation people of South Asian and African Caribbean ancestry born in the UK have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes than their parents, as do those of mixed heritage, according to a new study publishe...

Just over two years after its approval in the UK and EU as the first new treatment for type 1 diabetes since the discovery of insulin, the use of dapagliflozin is no longer authorised in this population grou...