Type 2 diabetes affects more than 37 million Americans, with millions more living with prediabetes without knowing it. While most people understand that excess weight and poor diet contribute to ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Type 2 diabetes increased in the U.S. by almost 20 percent between 2012 and 2022, with the South and Midwest most ...

Nearly 76% of households with prediabetes patients had additional members who had diabetes risk factors. Many of these household members had overweight or obesity. EHR data could identify at-risk ...

Study reveals a 12.8% 10-year risk of diabetes in a cohort of 44,992 individuals, highlighting the role of fasting plasma glucose, body mass index, age, and sex in predicting risk—even among those ...

Turns out, you can’t outrun diabetes with a low BMI. In a sweeping study of nearly 45,000 participants, researchers set out to determine what drives the progression from prediabetes to diabetes — and ...

Can loneliness cause diabetes? A new AI study shows that insomnia and poor mental health significantly increase Type 2 diabetes risk.

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. It may be time to add Covid-19 infection to the ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure is linked to a 31% increased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), with perfluorooctane sulfonate being a significant contributor. Metabolomic profiling ...

Type 2 diabetes is often triggered by a sedentary lifestyle or poor diet. At the same time, however, some people have genes that make it much more likely they will develop the disease. In other words, ...

Researchers are standing behind new data on how people's posteriors reflect changes linked to aging and diabetes. Shrinkage or inflammation of the gluteus maximus muscles of the buttocks may reflect ...