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Can a personalized diet improve glycaemic variability, HbA1c in prediabetic adults?
Adherence to a personalized calorie-restricted, weight-loss diet falls short of reducing glycaemic variability (GV) or glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) relative to a one-size-fits-all low-fat (standardized) diet among patients with prediabetes and moderately controlled type 2 diabetes, a study has shown.

Probiotic supplementation in pregnant women with obesity of little benefit to mothers, babies
In pregnant women with obesity, supplementation with multi-strain probiotics does not appear to have favourable effects on the metabolic or inflammatory biomarkers in mothers and on the body composition of their offspring, according to a study.

Adverse birth outcomes tied to increase T2D risk high among certain postmenopausal women
For postmenopausal women with a history of gestational diabetes, delivering high birth weight infants or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy poses a heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the future, according to a study.

Metabolic surgery bests medical/lifestyle management for people with diabetes in the long run
Individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) may fare better with metabolic bariatric surgery, which confers more favourable long-term outcomes as compared with intensive medical and lifestyle management, based on the 7- and 12-year data from the ARMMS-T2D* trial.




