Heart & Metabolic

Blood sugar & diabetes

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Safiglipron, a GLP-1 pill with no fasting rules, matched or beat dapagliflozin on blood sugar

Oct 21, 2026

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Prediabetes on 3 tests tracked with 15-fold diabetes risk in a 20-year study of 7,186 Koreans

Oct 20, 2026

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CGM lowered blood sugar in type 2 diabetes without insulin, 0.9 HbA1c points more than routine care

Oct 19, 2026

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Menopause hormone therapy linked to 17% fewer type 2 diabetes cases across 14 studies

Oct 16, 2026

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7 to 9.5 fewer years of life linked to heart disease, fatty liver, diabetes and obesity together

Oct 16, 2026

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Three years on a glucose sensor linked to lower blood sugar and less urine protein, not better kidney function

Oct 14, 2026

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Quitting smoking tied to less nerve damage in diabetes after six years, less kidney and eye damage after eight

Oct 14, 2026

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A third of insured adults with diabetic-range lab results had no recorded diagnosis or no treatment a year on

Oct 14, 2026

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Survodutide cut body weight by 8% to 10% in people with type 2 diabetes, and most had gut side effects

Oct 12, 2026

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No blood test differed after fasts past 12 hours, and only a few after short fasts, in 101,148 patients

Oct 9, 2026

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Orforglipron pill was no worse for the heart than insulin in a 2,749-person diabetes safety trial

Oct 9, 2026

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A low-calorie diet and supervised exercise put type 2 diabetes into remission in 27 of 50 adults aged 18 to 45

Oct 6, 2026

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Eating beside a partner blunted the blood sugar rise after a meal in 108 healthy young adults

Oct 2, 2026

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GLP-1 drugs went with 12% fewer asthma attacks than a rival diabetes drug, in 100,746 patients

Sep 23, 2026

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Tirzepatide and semaglutide showed the same serious liver outcomes over about 17 months

Sep 23, 2026

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Heart benefit of GLP-1 drugs faded after people stopped, in 333,687 US veterans with type 2 diabetes

Sep 23, 2026

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Eating healthily after a type 2 diabetes diagnosis went with longer survival, in 7,795 US adults over 24 years

Sep 22, 2026

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Insulin needs rose in the second half of the menstrual cycle, in 380 cycles from people with type 1 diabetes

Sep 22, 2026

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Glucose monitor patterns tracked with heart risk in 1,356 people who did not have diabetes

Sep 18, 2026

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Benefits of a type 1 diabetes pill faded within a year of patients stopping it

Sep 8, 2026

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Turning on glucose monitor alarms helped hospital patients; making them predictive added nothing

Sep 8, 2026

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Hip fractures were five times more common in type 1 diabetes, peaking in people in their forties

Sep 8, 2026

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Children exposed to diabetes in the womb developed it five times as often

Sep 6, 2026

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Eye drops improved vision in diabetic macular swelling, a condition normally treated by injection

Sep 4, 2026

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Each 20-point drop in blood pressure tracked 24% fewer kidney failure deaths

Sep 2, 2026

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Fenofibrate tracked 68% less diabetic macular edema across 4,571 matched patients

Sep 2, 2026

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Mediterranean living tracked half the heart deaths in adults with type 2 diabetes

Sep 2, 2026

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Sitting at the top of the 'normal' BMI range carried 78% more type 2 diabetes across 1.8 million people

Aug 31, 2026

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A diabetes drug tracked a third fewer deaths in over-75s, alongside a stroke signal nobody can explain

Aug 30, 2026

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Sudden vision loss hit 3 more GLP-1 users per 10,000 over 18 months than two rival diabetes drugs

Aug 28, 2026

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Gum disease tracked 18 to 25% more new diabetes across 28 studies and 300,000 people

Aug 28, 2026

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Walkable streets tracked lower diabetes risk, but clearly only in richer areas

Aug 17, 2026

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Weight lost early in prediabetes still counted 34 years on

Aug 14, 2026

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Melatonin worsened blood sugar, but only in gene carriers

Aug 6, 2026

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An oral GLP-1 pill cut weight 9% in a phase 2 trial

Aug 4, 2026

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GLP-1 drugs carried higher hair loss risk than two rivals

Aug 2, 2026

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Lifestyle cut chronic disease. Metformin did not.

Aug 2, 2026

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Mild cold lowered blood sugar. Colder did nothing.

Aug 1, 2026

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GLP-1 drugs tracked with fewer fractures, but only with diabetes

Jul 29, 2026

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Mazdutide took off 16.7% of body weight in a phase 3 trial

Jul 29, 2026

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The weight came back. The visceral fat loss didn't.

Jul 29, 2026

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Stopping GLP-1 drugs tracked with more anxiety after

Jul 28, 2026

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Bariatric surgery cost less downstream than GLP-1 drugs

Jul 27, 2026

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Losing 15% early after a diabetes diagnosis cut complications

Jul 26, 2026

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Oral GLP-1 pill elecoglipron hit 10% weight loss in a trial

Jul 26, 2026

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Sarcopenic obesity tripled type 2 diabetes risk

Jul 26, 2026

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Food-as-medicine groceries improved blood sugar in diabetes

Jul 25, 2026