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In war or during a natural disaster, people with diabetes often go without the care they need because attention is focused upon dealing with medical emergencies. Speakers at the recent International Diabetes...

There are large differences among individuals with type 1 diabetes in their level of glycaemic control, as reflected by glucose variability. An imaging study, reported in a recent issue of Diabetologia, find...

Prevention and remission of type 2 diabetes is crucial for tackling the projected increases in incidence in coming years. The logistics of setting up a large-scale programme in England and the challenges of ...

The use of SGLT-2 inhibitors in diabetes for cardiorenal protection, as well as for glucose lowering, is now backed by clinical guidelines. However, the heart and kidney benefits may actually arise from circ...

Low birth weight (LBW) is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. At the recent EASD meeting in Stockholm, researchers at the Steno Diabetes Center in Copenhagen revealed that people with LBW a...

A new paper in Diabetologia shows that the incidence of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes in Sweden has levelled off over the past two decades, although it is still high. Increased immigration to Sweden by fam...

As populations age around the world, multimorbidity is an increasingly significant global challenge. The latest module launching today on the EASD e-Learning site explores the impact of multimorbidity and it...

Advances in diabetes technology should help reduce the frequency of hypoglycaemia and the distress it can cause but does the clinical evidence for this stack up? And what about the psychological barriers to ...

As maternal glycaemic control has improved in women with type 1 diabetes before and during pregnancy, so too has birthweight and adiposity in their offspring, posing health risks later in life. A new theory ...

A recent study discussed at the 2022 EASD Annual Meeting found that modifiable risk factors, including HbA1c and BMI, are consistently associated with severe influenza, pneumonia and COVID-19 infection outco...

Hypoglycaemia remains a common and inevitable risk of insulin therapy. The International Hypoglycaemia Study Group seeks to raise awareness among people with diabetes and healthcare professionals, and advanc...

New research into waist-hip ratio (WHR) as a superior measure was presented at the 2022 EASD Annual Meeting. Lisa Buckingham reports.

A review published in a recent issue of Diabetologia reveals that South Asian people appear to store more fat in the liver than their white European counterparts. This may help explain why they run a higher ...

The Protein Limits Action Towards Eating (PLATE) approach to improving diet could help shift the macronutrient balance in the diet towards lower carbohydrates and lower calorie intake, and this could be help...

The composition and activity of the gut microbiome play an important role in weight loss or weight gain, according to new research presented at EASD 2022. The findings could be used to develop a new approach...

With prevalence of type 2 diabetes so high in the older population, this important question was addressed at the 58th EASD Annual Meeting. Lisa Buckingham reports.

Ethnic groups such as South Asians are under-represented in clinical trials, meaning that research findings may not be truly representative of the general population in the UK and elsewhere. This ethnic disp...

Huge advances have been made in treatments and technologies for type 1 diabetes, ‘but there are many people who still do not reach the target levels of glucose that we would need in order to prevent lo...

EASD 2022 ended on a high note with the unveiling of the latest ADA/EASD consensus report on the management of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes. Fifteen years since the first report, which had a narrow focu...

A recent paper in Diabetologia presents a review of the benefits and challenges of automated insulin delivery (AID), as these systems begin to enter mainstream diabetes care. The EASD/ADA Joint Diabetes Tech...

The benefits of moving patients to primary care were covered at the recent EASD 2022 meeting. Lisa Buckingham reports.