Prediabetes, diabetes prevention, and obesity

A partnership between primary care and commercial weight management providers could help reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes among patients with hyperglycemia, UK study findings show.

Research suggests that interspersing prolonged sitting with upper body exercise can help people with limited mobility or weight-bearing problems to limit their postprandial glycemic response.

Research shows that the largest long-term reductions in microvascular complications around 20 years after bariatric surgery for obesity are seen among patients who had prediabetes at the time of surgery.

Liraglutide enhances the positive effects of lifestyle intervention on weight loss and glycemic control in patients with prediabetes, show the 3-year outcomes of the SCALE Obesity and Prediabetes trial.

Simply maintaining weight during adulthood, at a population level, could prevent one in five diabetes cases, report researchers.

The same genetic variants that predict insulin resistance and cardiometabolic disease are also linked to a reduced ability to expand peripheral fat storage, shows research published in Nature Genetics.