Posts Tagged ‘prediabetes’

In the International Journal of Obesity, obesity medicine physician and researcher Caroline Apovian offers a compelling case to favor a prediabetes indication for GLP-1s. She writes: “The approval of a GLP-1 for prediabetes will change the landscape for prevention of T2DM and its complications due to early detection. Currently, most individuals at risk of T2DM […]

New surveillance data from the U.S. Defense Health Agency tells us that the pandemic brought a large jump in diabetes, obesity, and eating disorders in the military. Between 2018 and 2021, the prevalence of obesity rose from 16 percent to 19 percent. The incidence of type 2 diabetes jumped by 25 percent and new cases […]

Vitamin D is an illusory panacea. Popular fascination with this “sunshine vitamin” has drawn people to latch onto associations that it has with many conditions. But those associations, when tested, often turn out to be confounded. So does a new systematic review and meta-analysis of vitamin D in prediabetes tell a different story? Anastassios Pittas […]

This is now unmistakeable. And it seems like a rare piece of good news. For the first time in decades, diabetes incidence is going down. The real question is, why? And the honest answer is nobody knows. A Trend That Started in 2008 Stephen Benoit and colleagues from CDC analyzed U.S. trends in the diabetes […]

An impressive new three-year study of 3 mg liraglutide for obesity (Saxenda) finds that this therapy provides a large reduction in the risk of developing diabetes in people who have prediabetes. Published yesterday in Lancet, investigators found an 80% reduction in the risk of progressing to diabetes. In a post-hoc analysis, they made further assumptions […]

Here’s a jolt. New data published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research suggest that 55% of people in California have either diabetes or prediabetes. The headlines generated by this study are sensational, but there’s no obvious reason to doubt the report’s accuracy. In this report, we can glimpse a future filled with chronic […]