Gamechangers


Acknowledging diabetes distress

Even if you closely work with affected individuals, it can be challenging to fully grasp the nuanced impact of diabet...

Kidney protection beyond diabetes

SGLT2 inhibitors have become a cornerstone of type 2 diabetes therapy not for their antihyperglycaemic potency but fo...

Not just hypertension

At first glance, blood pressure drugs might not be chosen to improve type 1 diabetes control.

Long-term safety

Professor Miles Fisher highlights a cardiologist’s 2007 paper that changed the future of drug development for d...

Beyond expectations

Professor John Wilding discusses a clinical trial that revealed the long-term effects of bariatric surgery on people ...

Real-world impact

Professor Nisa Maruthur discusses the paper that opened her eyes to the power of lifestyle interventions for preventi...

Neighbourhoods and health

Professor John Buse reflects on the importance of a paper revealing what happens to health outcomes when a neighbourh...

Exciting times

Professor John Buse reflects on what a paper comparing tirzepatide and semaglutide means for the future of the obesit...

On the buses

Professor Dominik Pesta highlights groundbreaking work on the incidence of coronary heart disease in bus drivers and ...

Prior knowledge

Professor Ketan Dhatariya discusses the importance of a 2010 paper on post-operative outcomes in people with known di...

Starting point

Professor David Matthews reflects upon the impact of an important paper on islet transplantation in type 1 diabetes a...

All in one place

Professor Richard Bracken reflects on the seminal textbook on work physiology that influenced him and why it remains ...

Education, education, education

The findings of the DAFNE and DESMOND papers are hugely significant for those living with diabetes – Professor ...

Divide and conquer

Professor Baptist Gallwitz discusses why the 2018 paper with a hypothesis on new cluster classification of type 1 and...

Heart risk foretold

Professor Francesco Giorgino on a paper that demonstrated the tight interconnection between type 2 diabetes and cardi...

A subtle interplay

For his choice of scientific papers that changed the diabetes world, Professor Cliff Bailey selects a pioneering stud...

Bad combination

Professor Michael Nauck on the study that convinced him of the perils of combining sulphonylurea and insulin treatment.

New vision, new treatment

Launching our new film series, ‘Gamechangers’, Professor Stefano Del Prato shares his choice of the scien...