Prevention

Heart disease remains the leading cause of illness and death among people with diabetes. However, one of the most concerning complications, diabetic cardiomyopathy, often develops quietly for years before symptoms emerge. During this silent phase, routine echocardiograms frequently show a normal ejection fraction, creating a false sense of reassurance. Fortunately, …

Diabetes is known for raising blood sugar levels, but its long-term complications often have the greatest impact on health. Kidney disease, vision loss, nerve damage, and cardiovascular disease affect millions of people living with diabetes. For years, researchers focused on inflammation, oxidative stress, and poor circulation to explain these complications. …

Most people think diabetes-related blood vessel damage begins only after years of high blood sugar. However, scientists are uncovering evidence that injury may start much earlier, in a structure so thin it cannot be seen during a routine medical exam. This microscopic layer, known as the endothelial glycocalyx, acts as …

The transition from pediatric to adult diabetes care is one of the most challenging periods in the lives of young people with diabetes. While many adolescents successfully manage their condition with the support of pediatric diabetes teams, moving into adult healthcare often coincides with worsening blood glucose control, missed appointments, …

Diabetes is often diagnosed only after blood sugar levels have already risen above normal. However, what if the earliest warning signs appeared years before glucose levels changed? That question is driving exciting research into metabolomics, a rapidly growing field that analyzes tiny molecules produced during normal metabolism. Instead of focusing …

Imagine screening for diabetes as easily as breathing into a handheld device. That idea is rapidly moving from research laboratories toward clinical reality. Scientists are developing breath tests for diabetes that analyze tiny molecules in exhaled air to identify early metabolic changes long before traditional symptoms develop. Although blood glucose …

For decades, A1C has served as the gold standard for assessing long-term glucose control in people with diabetes. However, it tells only part of the story. Researchers are now exploring whether metabolic flexibility could become an important biomarker in diabetes, offering a deeper understanding of metabolic health than A1C alone. …

For years, artificial sweeteners have been promoted as an important strategy for reducing sugar intake in people with diabetes. They help lower carbohydrate intake, reduce post-meal glucose spikes, and support weight management without adding calories. However, recent research has challenged the long-held assumption that all non-nutritive sweeteners are metabolically neutral. …

Population-based screening for type 1 diabetes is entering a new era. While autoantibody testing remains the gold standard for identifying individuals at high risk, researchers are increasingly investigating whether type 1 diabetes genetic screening could identify susceptible people even earlier. Advances in genomic science now make it possible to estimate …

Many people think of liver function tests as a way to detect liver disease. However, researchers are discovering that routine liver enzymes may also reveal important clues about future metabolic health. Understanding liver enzymes diabetes risk is becoming increasingly important because these commonly ordered blood tests may help identify people …