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Diabetes
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Turning on glucose monitor alarms helped hospital patients; making them predictive added nothing
Continuous glucose monitors are moving into hospital wards, with no agreement on whether their alarms should be switched on. Randomizing 533 inpatients tested the alarms rather than the sensor.
Sep 8, 2026
Hip fractures were five times more common in type 1 diabetes, peaking in people in their forties
Bone is not on the checklist for type 1 diabetes, and fracture screening is aimed at people decades older. Comparing 5,035 patients against 12,286 controls found the excess risk starts early.
Sep 8, 2026
Expressing milk before birth more than doubled exclusive breastfeeding after gestational diabetes
Babies of mothers with gestational diabetes often get formula in the first hours for low blood sugar, and breastfeeding rarely recovers. Collecting milk before the birth changed how many were still feeding weeks later.
Sep 6, 2026
Children exposed to diabetes in the womb developed it five times as often
Gestational diabetes is described as ending at delivery. Following 2.85 million children to a median age of 16, exposure before birth tracked far higher diabetes rates, and control around conception shifted the odds.
Sep 6, 2026