Tag
Muscle
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Sarcopenic obesity tripled type 2 diabetes risk
A Diabetes Care analysis of 479,607 UK Biobank participants found people with both low muscle strength and high body fat had over three times the type 2 diabetes risk, far above either problem alone.
Jul 26, 2026
Apitegromab kept muscle on during tirzepatide weight loss
A Nature Medicine trial of 102 adults found adding the antibody apitegromab to tirzepatide cut lean-mass loss by 1.9 kilograms over 24 weeks, without slowing total weight loss.
Jul 25, 2026
Exercise kept older muscle young at the molecular level
A Nature Aging study of muscle samples from young and older adults found that half the molecular differences normally caused by age were simply absent in older people who had trained for years.
Jul 25, 2026
Yo-yo dieting was tied to muscle loss on body scans
Researchers at UC San Francisco tracked 1,433 middle-aged adults with repeat MRI scans and found that people whose weight kept swinging lost more thigh muscle than those who stayed stable.
Jul 23, 2026