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Changes include a new blood sugar standard for children and adolescents; a lower BMI screening threshold for Asian Americans; and new recommendations on statin use based on risk status…

Endogenous glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists appears to inhibit fluid intake… Type 2 patients have an elevated risk for dehydration due to high glucose levels, and an increasingly popular class of diabetes drugs may increase this risk even more, a team of researchers at the State University of New York at …

New guidelines call for giving the cholesterol-lowering drugs to almost all people with diabetes to help prevent heart disease…

Clinicians are urged to consider testing for diabetes in all Asian American adults who present with a BMI ≥23 kg/m2… Aligning its guidelines with evidence that Asian Americans develop type 2 diabetes at lower BMI levels than the general population, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has lowered its screening cut …

Nearly 600,000 cancer cases in the UK could have been avoided in the last five years if people had healthier lifestyles according to Cancer Research UK…. Overall, experts say that more than four in 10 cancers could be prevented by changes to lifestyle. With health services already overstretched and people …

According to a published study seven metabolites can predict the risk of type 2 diabetes in Native American patients… Using these metabolites improved risk prediction beyond established methods of predicting diabetes risk, including BMI, fasting glucose, and insulin resistance. Jinying Zhao, MD, PhD, of the Tulane University School of Public …

According to a new study, about 1/3 of people with type 1 diabetes produce insulin, as measured by C-peptide, even upward of 40 years from initial diagnosis… The findings shed new light on the long-accepted belief that patients with type 1 diabetes lose all ability to produce any insulin. The …

Inulin-proprionate-ester helps to stimulate the gut to release hormones including GLP-1 that act on the brain to reduce hunger….

A team of Canadian researchers found that as many as 8 years could be lost by men and the effects of overweight and obesity were greatest for younger patients. 

Elevated fasting insulin levels in children aged 3 to 6 years may help predict which children will develop type 2 diabetes as adults… Although researchers did not find the same association for older children and adolescents, they did find an association between body mass index (BMI) in peripubertal years and …