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Adherence to a healthy dietary pattern, such as the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), may reduce the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) but appears to increase exposure to harmful chemicals, according to a Singapore study presented at ADA 2024.

In patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) treated with SGLT2 inhibitors, such as dapagliflozin, the addition of pioglitazone helps to intensify the reduction in HbA1c and blocks the increase in plasma ketone driven by SGLT2 inhibitors, reports a study presented at ADA 2024. This enables long-term cardiovascular and renal outcome studies to be safely performed in T1D patients.

Depressive symptoms are likely to occur in middle-aged and older men with hypogonadism, but low-grade persistent depressive disorder (LG-PDD) is rare, according to a study.

In patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), moderate-intensity statin in combination with ezetimibe results in greater reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and better prevention of adverse outcomes when compared with high-intensity statin monotherapy, suggests a study.

Patients with diabetes show high levels of acceptance and ability to adopt self-testing of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) despite facing issues in the insertion of test cartridges into the analyser, reports a study. Patients also express willingness to do self-testing in the future if such a service is available.

People diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) face a worse prognosis if they also have untreated or complicated diabetes mellitus (DM), according to a study.