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Recent reports of unreliable continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems highlight the urgent need for European standards to ensure the quality of these devices.

Fixed-ratio combinations of basal insulin and GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA) have shown robust results as a treatment intensification option for people with type 2 diabetes.

The management of diabetic foot ulcers is a significant challenge, with amputation often being a necessary consequence. A novel approach using intact fish skin grafts, commonly used for burn wounds, has show...

Physical activity poses many challenges to people living with type 1 diabetes. A recently published position statement offers practical recommendations for the use of automated insulin delivery (AID) systems...

Kidney transplant recipients with type 1 diabetes who also receive an islet transplant profit from a significant reduction in the risk of death and the likelihood of returning to dialysis, a recent study sho...

In a recent randomised controlled trial, a whole-food, plant-based diet and exercise intervention was superior to standard medical care in improving glycaemic control, promoted diabetes remission and reduced...

A new consensus report offers key insights from over 6,000 articles on diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar state published since the previous 2009 consensus statement. Here we summarise how...

The FLOW trial brought GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) to the forefront of the discussion about chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes. A new subanalysis now sheds light on the concomitant use of GLP...

The recently published Clinical Practice Guidelines on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) was a joint effort of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), the E...

Artificial intelligence is going to revolutionise also the medical field, especially when it comes to harnessing existing data sets for practical applications. A Swedish consortium has now published its appr...

Metformin is typically taken with meals to reduce gastrointestinal side effects. However, recent data indicate that administering metformin before meals can improve glycaemic control and that this is linked ...

New research suggests that hypoglycaemia during sleep may have been underestimated by up to 30% in previous studies. The results were obtained by using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in addition to cust...

Determining which treatment is suited best for specific patient groups can be a complex challenge. A recent study proposes a simple roadmap to guide clinicians through the interpretation of subgroup meta-ana...

Undiagnosed diabetes is a burgeoning problem. A recent study tested people for prediabetes and diabetes when they were admitted to A&E and preliminary findings were presented at the 59th Annual Meeting o...

People with type 1 and type 2 diabetes may need emergency treatment when hyperglycaemia gets out of hand. The American Diabetes Association (ADA), EASD and others have just updated their guidance on the mana...

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...