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Simple muscle ultrasound may detect early prediabetes

Written by Charlie King | 4 Jul 2025

A simple ultrasound of a patient’s thigh or shoulder muscle may detect insulin resistance before it progresses to type 2 diabetes or even prediabetes. In a study, Michigan… read more.

A healthy lifestyle may counteract diabetes-associated brain ageing

Written by Charlie King | 2 Sep 2024

Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes are associated with accelerated brain ageing, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal Diabetes Care. The good news… read more.

Emergency department screening could detect thousands of undiagnosed prediabetes and diabetes cases, UK study suggests

Written by Charlie King | 8 Oct 2023

The introduction of screening for type 2 diabetes in Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments could uncover thousands of previously undiagnosed cases every year, suggests new research being presented… read more.

Use age, not weight, to screen for diabetes

Written by Charlie King | 26 Mar 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…. read more.

Vitamin D supplementation may lower diabetes risk for the more than 10 million adults with prediabetes

Written by Charlie King | 10 Feb 2023

A review of clinical trials has found that higher vitamin D intake was associated with a 15 percent decreased likelihood for developing type 2 diabetes in adults with… read more.

Low carb diet shows effect on direction of prediabetes

Written by Bruce Sylvester | 3 Nov 2022

A low-carb diet enables persons at risk of Type 2 diabetes to lower their blood sugar before the onset of that disease, researchers reported on Oct.26, 2022 in… read more.