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Published on June 11, 2024
Social determinants of health such as food insecurity, low household income and a lack of health insurance has been linked to youth-onset of prediabetes—higher-than-normal blood sugar—in adolescents, independent of race and ethnicity according to a new study published today in JAMA Open Network. The research, by investigators at the University…
Published on October 9, 2024
The paradoxical surge of colorectal cancer (CRC) cases among younger adults is one of the biggest questions for oncology today. Now there is new evidence that an unexpected driver behind the mysterious rise of colon cancer cases in young adults is high blood-sugar levels. This study found that young adults…
Published on October 8, 2024
Surya Singh, MDCEO InformedDNA Genomics have enabled a series of transformative scientific advances in precision medicine over the last decade, most prominently in cancer care. Examples include the first approved cancer vaccine for the treatment of prostate cancer and progress on several personalized cancer vaccines with…
Published on September 16, 2024
A new large-scale, meta-analysis, suggests hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can control insulin resistance in healthy, post-menopausal women. This finding could help guide the use of HRT, something that has long been controversial but could apparently have substantial benefits for certain patients. Results of the meta-analysis, which included over 17 trials,…
Published on June 25, 2024
A study of more than 8,000 gut microbiome profiles sampled from people in eight different countries led by researchers based at Harvard University shows abnormal changes in 19 bacterial species are linked to increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Of the 19 gut bacteria species identified, five were linked…
Published on February 12, 2024
Already a popular topic, the launch of the large language model-based chatbot, ChatGPT, at the end of 2022 increased excitement around artificial intelligence (AI) in the media to fever pitch. This event triggered many heated debates about the technology and its numerous potential applications over the past 12 months. There…
Published on November 15, 2023
A large-scale, community program run by the U.K.’s National Health Service designed to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is effective, according to a study led by Stanford University. The ongoing NHS Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) was set up in 2016 and participants are adults who are at…
Published on October 11, 2023
Heart health experts are declaring the overlapping effects of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease as a new syndrome—cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, or CKM. This change, they say, is prompting rethinking of how they predict long-term cardiovascular risks. A presidential advisory from the American Heart Association (AHA), published Monday in the…
Published on August 30, 2023
Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno, MD, PhD, at Japan’s RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences have identified gut bacteria that reduces insulin resistance and may protect against type 2 diabetes and obesity. Their study, published today in Nature, involved analyzing human fecal microbiomes then corroborating their results with tests on…
Published on June 21, 2023
It’s long been known that cancer patients have excess sugar in their urine, now new research affirms that insulin resistance, a distinctive feature in diabetics, is common in cancer patients. Since insulin resistance can lead to tumor growth, this finding suggests further research on whether treating this condition for people…
Published on March 24, 2023
Focus on age, not weight, to capture the greatest number of people in all racial and ethnic groups with prediabetes and diabetes, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Making screening decisions based on age alone is also simpler for clinicians to implement, which may result in greater uptake of such testing.…
Published on February 13, 2023
Women who deliver large-for-gestational age babies are at an increased risk of prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes 10-14 years after they give birth, according to a new study. These findings were presented this week at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting and published in the American Journal of Obstetrics &…
Published on December 5, 2022
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) can not only the track blood sugar of people with diabetes but also identify those at risk of the condition when combined with artificial intelligence. Research showed just 12 hours of glucose profiles provided the predictive model with enough information to distinguish diabetic, prediabetic, and healthy…
Published on August 10, 2022
Research led by Lata Medical Research Foundation in India shows that machine learning algorithms can help predict the onset of type 2 diabetes using electrocardiogram (ECG) data. The predictive algorithm, known as DiaBeats by the research team, was able to classify individuals as having prediabetes, type 2 diabetes or no…
Published on April 5, 2022
Research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda shows artificial intelligence (AI)-driven analysis of computed tomography (CT) scans of the pancreas has the potential to improve diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes causes a huge health burden on both patients and healthcare providers. Around 13% of…