Health

New research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Milan, Italy, from Sept. 28–Oct. 2 shows that, with the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices, people with type 1 diabetes can complete a marathon safely and achieve finishing times similar to runners without diabetes.

The emerging public health field of food is medicine (FIM) experienced a rapid increase in published research studies and substantial progress in advancing public policy. These trends demonstrate the growing potential for health care-integrated nutrition interventions to improve health outcomes cost-effectively, according to a new report from the American Heart Association’s Health Care by Food initiative.

Scrolling through social media can mean encountering a supplement promising better health, a drink offering quick weight loss or a food promoted as a “superfood.” For people looking for advice on what to eat, distinguishing reliable information from misleading claims can be difficult. On Tuesday, EUFIC and Fundación Maldita.es organized an Infoodmation stakeholder workshop that offered a closer look at these messages, where they appear and who may be particularly vulnerable to them. Supplements and weight loss were the most prominent misinformation topics examined in food-related posts by popular influencers across 16 European countries.

Coffee is best known, and perhaps most valued, for its caffeine and its ability to make us feel more awake and alert. But coffee is much more than caffeine dissolved in hot water.

Chronic stress from people’s everyday lives may be causing lasting structural changes to the heart, harming health and reducing life expectancy.

Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation reduces hospital admissions by a third and heart attack risk by more than a quarter, as well as remaining beneficial in the long term, a new Cochrane review finds. The evidence also suggests that newer home-based and digitally supported cardiac rehabilitation programs can be just as effective as traditional center-based services. The work is published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Better cardiovascular health (CVH) is nonlinearly and inversely associated with overactive bladder (OAB), according to a study published in the August issue of the Annals of Medicine & Surgery.

Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) are the clinical gold standards for screening blood sugar levels, yet they provide only static snapshots that fail to reflect the highly dynamic and heterogeneous nature of metabolic impairment. However, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is reshaping our understanding of these levels. While the medical community already has begun capitalizing on CGM for diabetes management, a new study has the potential to change current clinical practices for cardiovascular disease risk stratification in individuals without diabetes.

Greater amounts of REM and deep sleep were associated with lower risks of dozens of diseases, and less than 5 hours of total sleep was associated with high disease risks, according to a new study published Sept. 17 in the journal PLOS Medicine by Shengzhi Sun of Capital Medical University, China, and colleagues.

Millions of people worldwide—as many as 1 in 8 adults in the U.S.—are taking GLP-1 medications, such as Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy and Zepbound, to treat diabetes or for weight loss.

Scroll through social media these days and you’ll likely come across someone injecting themselves with a clear liquid, raving about how it’s changed their body for the better, improved their recovery or maybe their skin.